Compassion training activates brain regions linked to resilience and well-being, contrasting with empathy's association with ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When many of us consider what “compassion” means, we often think it refers to being nice and ...

The 28th of November is World Compassion Day and an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of compassion. I have come to see compassion as something active, full of movement, and formed of different ...

As a public health physician, working for more than 30 years with children with disabilities and their families, I have learned the importance of compassion. When we have compassion, we minimize our ...

Hebrew, the holy tongue, is different from all other languages. Every word is definitive and speaks to us. You must only explore the concept, find the root, and suddenly you will have insight into ...

The beginning of this month marks a half-year of being quarantined in my home. I really can’t complain; I am living with my husband and some family members in a comfortable house in a lovely setting.

Before he had completed medical training, David Shlim found compassion slipping. “Halfway through my first year of residency I found myself wishing that a patient would die so that I could go back to ...

The answers to these questions aren’t just important for feel-good reasons. Recent research suggests that more compassionate workplaces reap substantive benefits when it comes to employee wellness, ...

When I was 26 years old and in my first real management position, I realized it would be helpful to read a book on compassion. I didn’t even really know what compassion was, but I knew that I wasn’t ...

George W. Bush called himself a "compassionate" conservative. If one has to make a quality statement about a type of conservatism, in my opinion, you are not conservative at all. Conservatism is per ...

Compassion comes easily to me. As the granddaughter of immigrants from Lithuania and Poland who spoke little English, I understand what it's like to be treated as a stranger in America. As a ...