Meditation

Recent study using [meditation:concentration] techniques shows that it might be possible. One group of subjects learned to practice what's called "compassionate meditation" by focusing on a specific person while repeating a [phrase:sentence] like, "May you be free from [suffering:offering] ". The subjects concentrated on five different people: A loved one, a friend, themselves, a stranger and then someone they were in [conflict:contrast] with. Another group of subjects performed general positive thinking. Both groups did the exercise 30 minutes a day for two weeks. Then everyone was asked to spend money to help a fictional character who had been treated unfairly. And the subjects who did compassionate meditation were more likely to [spend:tend] their money to help than those who trained to just think more positively.