News

Feeling Under the Weather? Go Hang Out with Friends

Written By Keryn Breiterman-Loader

During my first quarter at Stanford, I got sick a lot. This was very unusual for me and was a little mysterious, since I was practicing all my healthy behaviors — eating well, sleeping well, and exercising daily. I blamed my frequent illness on living with so many people in…

Read More >>

5 Ways to Do Good and Feel Good — Fast, Free and From Your Desk

Written By Dr. Emma Seppala

Science tells us compassion is good for our health, and we know that helping others makes us feel good, but sometimes it feels like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. There is so much to do, can I possibly find time to contribute? Yes! In minutes, at no…

Read More >>

The Science of Compassion

Written By James R. Doty, MD

It is imperative that each of us try to garner insight into our prejudices. Awareness is the first step toward more compassionate decisions.

Read More >>

Compassion: Shifting the Balance From Bad to Good Stress

Written By Dr. Firdaus Dhabhar

We generally think of stress as a big, bad, disease-causing, killer. Yet mother nature didn’t give us the stress response to kill us. She gave us the stress response to help us stay alive! For example, without this fight-or-flight response, a lion has no chance of catching its meal, and…

Read More >>

10 (Science-Based) Reasons Why Compassion is Hot

Written By Dr. Emma Seppala

Science suggests that compassion may well be the most important thing in your life. 1. It makes us happy (as happy as getting money)! A brain-imaging study headed by neuroscientist Jordan Grafman from the National Institute of Health showed that the “pleasures centers” in the brain, i.e. the parts of…

Read More >>