Video: ABC News looks at compassion meditation — it’s “totally secular. Anybody can do it.”

ABC News and reporter Dan Harris have been covering the meditation-and-science beat for a while now. Here’s their latest report on meditation and how it’s changing lives — in this case, we’re specifically talking kids and families. One child reports that it makes her nicer: “If I don’t meditate, I get really mad and yell at people.” Watch:

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Want to learn more about meditation? Visit our special How to Meditate page, and check out Mindful.org, which documents all the ways that secular meditation practice is helping people of all ages to build a more compassionate, more mindful society.


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