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Loving kindness mediation decreases self-related and increases empathy-related brain connectivity


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During loving kindness meditation (the cultivation of heartfelt feelings of selfless love), expert meditators demonstrated decreased brain connectivity related to self-reference and inner speech in addition to increased connectivity associated with an embodied feeling of loving kindness and emotional feeling/empathy.

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