Find Compassion

Imagining stories activates the particular regions inside our minds that facilitate better understanding of others and seeing our surroundings with a new perspective, equivalent to putting oneself in someone else's shoes.

When we read about a situation and how someone else...

Meditation also makes our compassion more effective.

• Practicing loving-kindness meditation for others increases our willingness to take action to relieve suffering. 
  
• For long-term meditators, activity in the part of our brains that reflects on thoughts, feelings, an...

This habit is about listening to others with empathy and understanding before trying to communicate your own point of view.

It's about putting yourself in someone else's shoes and trying to see things from their perspective. When you seek first to understand, you're more li...