Compassion Can Change Your Brain

A new study out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, finds that a phenomenon known as neuroplasticity may help you learn to be happy. Furthermore, that if you practice compassion, your brain chemistry changes:

This means that happiness and all of the healing properties associated with it can actually be learned through meditation. Meditation and guided imagery have been shown to facilitate healing primarily through the connection between the mind and body. The mind acts like a source of information and this information is carried to the tissues to the body via the nervous and endocrine systems.

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for an interesting discussion of this study you might want to check out the conversation between Richard Davidson and Daniel Goleman available on www.morethansound.net