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Compassionate Mind, Healthy Body

By Emma Seppälä — 2013

Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.

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Compassion Is Like a Muscle That Gets Stronger with Training

Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.

Christopher Bergland

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Cultivating Compassion

How to love yourself and others.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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The Surprising Benefits of Compassion Meditation

It can be powerful medicine for both your mind and relationships.

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Breathing Compassion In and Out

Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.

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Meditation Is Ridiculously, Amazingly Simple

If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.

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A Meditation on Lovingkindness

This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.

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18 Science-Backed Reasons to Try Loving-Kindness Meditation

Research shows that Loving-Kindness Meditation has tremendous benefits from greater well-being to providing relief from illness and improving emotional intelligence.

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What’s the Difference Between Compassion and Lovingkindness?

Simply put: compassion is lovingkindness in action.

Compassion Works for All

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Which Type of Meditation Is Right for Me?

Not all meditation styles are right for everyone. These practices require different skills and mindsets. How do you know which practice is right for you?

Holly J. Bertone

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A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness, from Sharon Salzberg

This classic loving-kindness meditation can help you to awaken to how connected we all are. You don’t have to like everybody, or agree with everything they do—but you can open up to the possibility of caring for them, because our lives are inextricably linked.

Sharon Salzberg

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