Meditation Makes You Compassionate?
Posted by: Luke in philosophy of success, tags: brain region, brains, burst, compassion, compassionate meditation, emotion, emotional state, empathizing, juncture, limbic system, novices, parietal, scientific american, screamsScientific American talks about how you can possibly train yourself to be more compassionate through meditation.
When engaged in compassionate meditation, the brain region known as the insula burst into action when the expert meditators heard the sound of a woman in distress. (The insula—a part of the limbic system—has been associated with the visceral feeling of emotion, a key part of empathizing with another’s emotional state.)
And when these experts heard the female screams or the sound of a baby laughing, their brains showed more activity than the novices in areas like the right temporal-parietal juncture, which plays a role in understanding another’s emotion.
Meditation is based on holding a specific thought in mind for a long while. One thing you can focus on is the feeling of compassion. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. 
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