Compassion Meditation Changes The Brain

Worth noting this article: Compassion Meditation Changes The Brain: perhaps not surprising at one level, but it's good (again) to have back up for the benefits of filling our minds with good stuff. If learning the streets of London changes cabbies' brains, it is not perhaps such a leap to "Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples' mental states"