Meditating stand

“The authors explored whether meditation training to enhance emotional awareness improves discrimination of subtle emotional feelings hypothesized to guide decision-making … meditators reported greater emotional clarity than controls, and meditators with higher clarity had reduced arousal and improved valence discrimination in the masked condition. These findings provide qualified support for the somatic marker hypothesis and suggest that meditation may influence how emotionally ambiguous information is processed, regulated, and represented in conscious awareness.” Nielsen, L. and Kaszniak, A. W. Awareness of Subtle Emotional Feelings: A Comparison of Long-Term Meditators and Nonmeditators. Emotion. 6(3), Aug 2006, 392-405.