Compassionate Meditation Changes the Brain

Mar 28, 2008 12:25

Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples' mental states, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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originalkitsune March 28 2008, 19:36:22 UTC
maybe hope for humanity after all!

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