How meditation can improve my listening skills?

1. Mindfulness meditation makes you more alert and attentive, which helps you to actively listen to others and understand them more effectively
2. Mediation helps to build patience and it's extremely important in communication. You patiently listen to other person and let them speak first. If you do not let others to speak then how can you understand their views.
3. Mediation helps to increase focus, which helps you to grasp words effectively and understand more easily. Distractions like environment noise does not bother you.
4. Mediation makes you less judgemental because mediation means "silently observing your thoughts, feelings or emotions without judging them". This helps in communication too. While listening to others you don't judge them and they would be more open if you don't judge them.
5. Mediation makes you more compassionate, you listen to others compassionately and shows empathy towards them when they share their thought and feelings to you.

This is how meditation can tremendously improve your listening skills. Therefore, makes you better communicator.