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Meditation on Compassion

By Jack Kornfield

To cultivate compassion, let yourself sit in a centered and quiet way. In this traditional form of practice you will combine a repeated inner intention with visualization and the evocation of the feeling of compassion.

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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level.

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Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson
2017
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Dan Harris: Hack Your Brain's Default Mode with Meditation | Big Think

There’s no way a fidgety and skeptical news anchor would ever have started meditating were it not for the science. The science is really compelling.

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2014
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you. You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.

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Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren, Carlye Adler
2025
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How Meditation Impacts the Brain and Implications for Health

How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.

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Helen Weng
2016
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The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions - Helen Weng, Ph.D. Candidate

This talk was part of panel Compassion-Building Interventions by Helen Weng, Ph.D. candidate.

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Helen Weng
2012
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Highlights: Compassion Meditation

This all-day conference will bring leading scientists and educators into dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama to discuss the state of current research on empathy and compassion, the scientific study of meditation practices for cultivating compassion, and the implementation of such meditation...

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The Dalai Lama
2010
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Meditation’s Impact on the Brain | Documentary Clip

This is a clip from the feature documentary “A Joyful Mind.”

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Richard Davidson
2019
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The Science of Meditation

Meditation has never been so popular. But can it really make you smarter, happier and healthier? New research shows that it can affect the body as well as the mind, slow down the aging process, and even alter the structure of the brain.

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2016
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Pain Is Not Suffering

In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011, Kelly McGonigal explores the neuroscience of meditation to help us understand how practice shapes the mind, and offers fresh insight into concepts like mindfulness and suffering.

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Kelly McGonigal
2012
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‘Default Mode Network’ Is Suppressed by Meditation Practice | Roland Griffiths

It is Dr. Patrick’s goal to challenge the status quo and encourage the wider public to think about health and longevity using a proactive, preventative approach.

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Roland Griffiths
2019
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