People avoid feeling compassion for others, feel it’s a lot of effort: Study
Kareena Kapoor Khan
A n avid fan of yoga, actor Alia Bhatt often posts videos and pictures of herself doing various asanas, giving a peek into her fitness routine. And now, Bhatt added aerial yoga to her list of workout accomplishments, impressing many netizens.
Her trainer, Anshuka, who also trains actors like Ananya Panday and Rakul Preet Singh, posted two pictures of Bhatt nailing the aerial version of Natarajasana or the Dancer’s Pose.
Anshuka also revealed the benefits of aerial yoga, and we may just have uncovered the secret behind Bhatt’s glowing skin and awesome hair.
The post said aerial yoga removes visual signs of toxicity, which gives the skin a natural facelift and glow. Additionally, aerial yoga reverses gravity, which flushes fresh nutrients and oxygen to the face. It also stimulates the facial capillaries and hair follicles of the scalp.
Anshuka captioned Bhatt’s aerial yoga photos with: “Inverting and dancing into opening up the heart @aliaabhatt... Inversions literally turn your frown upside down.”
Other than the benefits listed above, doing aerial Natarajasana can also help open up the chest and the front part of our body. Practising it provides flexibility and releases tension from the spine.
Including it in one’s workout routine can also enable proper body alignment with a deeper awareness of the stretch, breath, movement, and range of motion. One can also ease pain and stiffness in their back and shoulders by practising this asana correctly.
Other celebs who have shared posts about trying aerial yoga include actors Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sara Ali Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez.
Krishna Priya Pallavi
In a series of studies, experts found that when given the option, people often chose to avoid feeling compassion for others and reported that doing so was mentally effortful, which were linked to their choices.
The findings of the studies were published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
The researchers also found that if the situation involved a person they were close to, such as a family member, people were more likely to choose to feel compassion and that being compassionate in this context was easier.
Julian Scheffer, a Penn State graduate and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, said the findings suggest a need for new ways to encourage people to open themselves up to feeling compassion for others — especially in times of division and hardship.
“Experiencing compassion often leads to wanting to help others and improve their welfare, but we found that people may be unwilling to experience compassion and find it mentally taxing,”
Scheffer said. In the first two studies, candidates were split into two groups. One was asked to choose between drawing from the compassion or objective decks, and the other was asked to choose between empathy and objective decks. Participants chose the compassion deck over the objective deck only about 25 per cent of the time in the first study and about 21 per cent in the second study.
“Compassion may be more desirable when directed toward more familiar loved ones, and potentially feel less difficult,” Scheffer commented.
EXPERTS FOUND THAT COMPASSION COMES EASILY FOR ONE’S FAMILY.