Meditate on This: You Can Learn to Be More Compassionate: Scientific American - www.scientificamerican.com (HTTP) Like athletes or musicians, people who practice meditation can enhance their ability to concentrate—or even lower their blood pressure.
They can also cultivate compassion, according to a new study. Specifically, concentrating on the loving kindness one feels toward one's family (and expanding that to include strangers) physically affects brain regions that play a role in empathy. "There is such a thing as expertise when it comes to complex emotions or emotional skills, such as the one of cultivating benevolence," says Antoine Lutz, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who led the study. "That raises the possibility that you can train someone to cultivate this positive emotion.
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