Ed and Makya,
Also, it is a known fact that 72% of all statistics are just made up on the spot. …Bill! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maria Lopez Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Zen] Compassion for Others Benefits Self Hi ED; Thanks for the artilcle. I wonder why the American people need always from statistics, testing in the laboratory things that en the rest of the world are obvious. Compassion understood as the empathy towards any living being benefits with the same equanimity women as men. As the old say addressed to everyone the same: "It's in the giving that we receive " What a silly thing to make distintions here!. Mayka --- On Thu, 19/8/10, ED <[email protected]> wrote: From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Compassion for Others Benefits Self To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 19 August, 2010, 6:08 <http://www.physorg.com/> Study Shows that Women's Compassion for Others Benefits the Self August 18th, 2010 in Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry (PhysOrg.com) -- The Dalai Lama holds that compassion -- concern for the well-being of others -- leads to happiness. Now a new study has found that compassion may also have health benefits in the form of stress reduction for women. The study involving 59 women found that those who demonstrated high levels of compassion for others were more receptive to social support, enabling them to better handle acute psychological stress and maintain overall well-being, according to psychologists at the University of Maine, University of California - Berkeley and University of California - San Francisco. The higher the women's compassion, the lower their blood pressure and cortisol levels, and the higher their beneficial heart rate variability when an emotionally stressful task was buffered by social support -- smiling, nodding and encouraging words -- offered by another person. When the same stressor was not buffered by social support, women experienced significant increases in blood pressure and cortisol, regardless of their individual levels of compassion. The research demonstrates that concern for the well-being of others does, indeed, benefit the self. By increasing the effectiveness of social support, compassion served a stress reduction function for women in the study. The research findings by graduate student Brandon Cosley and psychologist Shannon McCoy at UMaine; Laura Saslow at UC-Berkeley; and Elissa Epel at UC-San Francisco were published in the <http://www.physorg.com/tags/journal+of+experimental+social+psychology/> Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Provided by University of Maine "Study Shows that Women's Compassion for Others Benefits the Self." August 18th, 2010. <http://www.physorg.com/news201365891.html> www.physorg.com/news201365891.html __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5377 (20100818) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
