March 26, 2008 — Practice may make perfect when it comes to kindness and compassion.
A new study shows practicing kindness and compassion through regular meditation actually activates the brain and makes people more empathetic to others.
It’s the first study to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to analyze the effects of compassion meditation on brain activity. The results suggest that people can train themselves to be more compassionate just as they’d train themselves to play a musical instrument