You may feel very compassionate today. You may be more conscious and accepting of the needs and wants of individuals you encounter throughout your day and thus able to relate to them in a more intimate and heartfelt manner. Consider using your compassion to improve the lives of others today. There may be people in your personal or professional spheres that need assistance, friendship, or sympathy and aren't able to find it. If you can imagine what life is like in their shoes, you'll be more easily able to discern what it is that they need so that you can give it to them.

The practice of compassion can help you relate to others. Exercising your natural compassion gives you the power to comprehend what others are thinking and feeling within the context of their experience rather than yours. Even when your values differ from those of other people, you can appreciate and understand their motivations when you are compassionate. Compassion allows you to feel people's pain even when you do not share their hurt. It also allows you to not take their behavior personally. You come to understand yourself better, as you see the different aspects of yourself in the people that you are relating to with compassion. The compassion you express today will help you become closer to the people you know and to humanity at large.