empathy

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Mindfulness Isn’t Enough: Here’s Why We Need Kindfulness

Studies suggest that awareness without warmth doesn’t reliably produce kindness. Sometimes it produces something closer to well-regulated indifference. Perhaps mindfulness needs to evolve into kindfulness.

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Want to Feel Happier? Be Happy for Other people

When you be happy for other people, you’re literally ‘being’ happy. It’s called ‘confelicity’.

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A prescription of kindness

I noticed over the past year that kindness and compassion can matter just as much…

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Prayer

“I don’t need science to tell me if prayer works!” a friend once told me.

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