COMPASSION

Compassion is the emotion that one feels in response to the suffering of others. It motivates a desire to help and gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering,

Compassion is feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate suffering. 

Compassion involves putting yourself in someone else's shoes, to take focus off yourself and to imagine what its like to be in someone else's predicament. 

• Look for commonalities: Seeing yourself as similar to others increases feelings of compassion. 
• Calm your inner worrier: When we let our mind run wild with fear in response to someone else’s pain (e.g., What if that happens to me?), we inhibit the biological systems that enable compassion. The practice of mindfulness can help us feel safer in these situations, facilitating compassion.
• Encourage cooperation, not competition, even through subtle cues
• See people as humans
• Don’t play the blame game: When we blame others for their misfortune, we feel less tenderness and concern toward them.
• Respect your inner hero
• Notice and savor how good it feels to be compassionate. 
• To cultivate compassion in kids, start by modeling kindness, lead by example.
• Curb inequality