Compassion training activates brain regions linked to resilience and well-being, contrasting with empathy's association with ...

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Self-compassion's energy extends outward, seeing your past self from today's perspective, while self-pity is backward-looking ...

Mindfulness is the soil out of which self-compassion grows. Together, they offer greater control over emotional reactions.

Occasionally in our lives, we meet a special person, one who is kind, generous, helpful, and loving, and seems to spread love ...

Here are four signs that you may be missing out on self-compassion, and what science says about how to change that.

Many people assume that self-compassion and compassion are related. After all, they both involve kindness—only the object of the kindness differs (ourselves versus another person). They both seem to ...

In times of crisis and social unrest, compassionate leadership can unify us as human beings, like a glue that binds us together in times of unrest. Without it, we become lonely individuals, facing ...

After 30 years in health care, I was ready to retire. But instead I found myself walking into a classroom at the Stanford University School of Medicine for the first day of a teacher-training program ...

If someone falls in front of you, your first instinct is probably to ask if they’re OK and help them up. But what if you’d heard them make a nasty comment? Or knew they voted differently than you?

When people hear the word compassion, they tend to think of kindness. But scientific study has found the core of compassion to be courage. Rather than defining compassion, kindness is just one way of ...