However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short daily mindfulness practice in beginners also improves memory, to the point that a group of students who volunteered for a study got significantly better scores on their graduate school entrance exams.

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.