Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amy Leigh Mercree, author of Joyful Living and the new Compassion Revolution. Cultivating a loving voice in ourselves that is compassionate, aware, kind, and patient yields a better quality of life. As we start being nicer to ourselves, more accepting of our shortcomings and exercising patience, this feeling of openness and understanding ripples out to the world around us. After all, compassion is not only heroic deeds, but small unseen and often thankless kindnesses done by any one of us. And those apparently small effects do resonate out into the world. 10 healthy reasons to practice compassion: It makes us feel good (e.g., helping