According to researchers, compassion is a natural instinctive behavior, and not necessarily only a learned or cultivated behavior. Compassion is not just an emotional response to the perception of another's suffering. Compassion goes beyond that and is the action that is motivated by this emotion. Many people confuse the terms empathy and compassion. Empathy is feeling the pain "with" and "for" someone else who is experiencing suffering or a negative situation, but compas