Your emotional responses towards another person at a given moment in time have everything to do with the integration of your own sensory-autonomic nervous system, and very little to do with the person standing in front of you.

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 - If we are able to better understand ourselves (information – knowledge – understanding) then we may see that our emotions and responses can only be generated by us. It would appear that the more in touch we are with our own bodies, both inside and out, the more our internal perception of ourselves improves, and therefore we also improve the person we project to the world around us.

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 - Meditation (amongst other benefits) increases gray matter in the part of our brain where our working memory & decision making takes place: The prefrontal cortex or executive centre. As we age, it’s most common to see the size of the neocortex ➝  shrink. Several studies suggest that you can see significant positive changes in just 15 to 20 minutes of meditation a day & in one recent study from Harvard Medical School, 50yr old regular meditators were found to have the same amount of gray matter (neurons) as those in the study who were half their age. Which is amazing!