Carry it Forward: Compassionate Imagining

Compassionate imagining seems like something that will have a great impact on my life. Compassionate imagining is the notion of projecting your compassion onto another thing, person, or yourself and imagining a circumstance that would alleviate the concern of that compassion.
It's valuable to me more as a way of understanding how people think than it is as a tool for life, since I do or don't do it subconsciously regardless. However, understanding that people like to compassionately imagine, or understanding people's or my own thoughts in that context greatly enhances my ability to contextually and comprehend the reasons for people's thoughts, the roots of them, and how to deal with/handle/understand them. For instance, instead of scoffing at someone's empathy for an only slightly misfortuned person or thing, I can instead appreciate that it is only their own misfortune they are trying to alleviate.