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Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study

Research suggests that mindfulness can induce changes in the social domain, such as enhancing emotional connection to others, prosocial behavior, and empathy.

…comparisons showed statistically significant differences between meditators and non-meditators for social cognition measures

Meditators scored significantly higher on empathy subscales.
In relation to emotional recognition, meditators scored significantly higher than non-meditators,

meditators demonstrated better performance in the Hinting Task versus non-meditators.

For attributional style, meditators scored statistically lower than non-meditators, revealing lower hostility bias , intentionality bias , blame , anger bias and aggressivity bias .
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

~ Voltaire


Natural ocean pool carved from rock (by Romans!) in Italy.

Superior to your chlorine human-soup and has lasted thousands of years.
Napoleon's Empire was probably one of the first states to have an air force.


the use of military balloons during the Napoleonic era
Napoleon tasked a famous female baloonist with investigating and, if possible, preparing, wider military usages for baloons, potentially including cross-channel transport.

SOPHIE BLANCHARD — FIRST WOMAN BALLOON PILOT