Thupten Jinpa reveals how compassion can lead to more happiness, less stress, a sense of purpose, better health and a longer life. This talk was recorded at an Action for Happiness event in London on 15 June 2015.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Com…

Los Angeles, July 7: Marine Biologists at the University of California, San Diego, have named a new found species in deep ocean water after the Tibetan leader Dalai Lama to mark his 80th birthday celebrated world over on Monday. Speaking at the second …

“Has the internet made us less compassionate and empathetic?” — a common doubt raised by rampant Internet use around the world.There are frequent reports of negative consequences of the Internet — loss of peace of mind, self esteem, and even life. Wi…

Sensitivity is perhaps the most underrated quality in the world. It’s too often associated with fragility and weakness when it’s actually a tremendous strength.Sensitive people are insightful and intelligent enough both to recognize an…

EMPATHY TRAININGThe way law enforcement deals with the mentally ill has come under scrutiny following a spate of officer-involved shootings across the nation. But Hulse said news reports miss the success stories between law enforcement and the public t…

EMPATHY TRAININGThe way law enforcement deals with the mentally ill has come under scrutiny following a spate of officer-involved shootings across the nation. But Hulse said news reports miss the success stories between law enforcement and the public t…

Do you prioritize other people’s feelings over your own? You might be falling into the “empathy trap.”

Empathy is having its moment. The ability to feel what another person is feeling, from that person’s perspective, generates lots of press as the ultimate positive value and the pathway to a kinder, less violent world. Schools across the country are teaching empathy to children, and myriad books explore it from every possible angle: how to get it, why it makes you a better person, how its absence can breed evil.

Empathy is exalted by thinkers from Zen Buddhist monk Thích Nhâ’t Hąnh to British writer Roman Krznaric, who just launched an online Empathy Museum where you can virtually step into someone else’s shoes. Established scientists like primatologist Frans de Waal and developmental psychiatrist Daniel Siegel explore the deep roots of empathy in animals and its essential nature in humans.

By Robin Stern, Diana Divecha

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Pause, take some time out, and consider how to fire up the empathy that lies ready and waiting within you? Want to rev up your imagination this summer? Switch on your empathy. Neuroscientists say that for 98 per cent of us, the ability to step int…