1. What hinders us from being compassionate to others?

Why do we choose not to help

even we are given so many opportunities to do it?
 There are a lot of reasons why. Some people are shy to express their feelings towards
someone they wanted to care. They think it's being dramatic and childish. It ruins their
image. Some also think it just nothing. While others are afraid to be judge by those
witnesses and to the person, they wanted to show their expression. They might think
they will be rejected and get disappointment.
 Some people doesn't want to help because they don’t want to enter someone's life.
They do not want to care for those people they do not even know. While others are
afraid to be rejected and criticize by many. Some are also afraid because they will be in
trouble if they help someone in need. But I want to tell there is behind every story. One
thing to remember, it's either you hate the person, or you are afraid to help because
they might ignore or judge you.

2. According to social neuroscience, what happens to our brain when we attend to the
needs of others?
 The studies the circuitry in two people's brains that activates while they interact. And
the new thinking about compassion from social neuroscience is that our default wiring is
to help. If we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically
feel with them. There are these newly identified neurons, mirror neurons, that act like a
neuro Wi-Fi, activating in our brain exactly the areas activated in theirs. We feel with
automatically. And if that person is in need, if that person is suffering, we are
automatically prepared to help.

3. What is the first step that we should take in order to be more compassionate to others?
 The first step in cultivating compassion is to develop empathy for your fellow human
beings. Many of us believe that we have empathy, and on some level nearly all of us do.
But many times we are centered on ourselves and we let our sense of empathy get
rusty. To be compassionate is to feel deeply for another person as they experience the
ups and downs associated with life. To be compassionate is to not just tell someone that
you care, but also to show them that you care by being there before they even ask for it.