Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar Course, leads an audience through The Compassion Exercise.

This exercise is one of over 30 exercises from the ReSurfacing® Workbook used in the first section of The Avatar Course.
It has spawned a world-wide movement known as The Compassion Project.

Here’s the text of the exercise:

Exercise 17: Compassion Exercise
Honesty with yourself leads to compassion for others.

Objective:
To increase the amount of compassion in the world.

Expected Result:
A personal sense of peace.

Instructions:
This exercise can be done anywhere that people congregate (airports, malls, parks, beaches, etc.). It should be done on strangers, unobtrusively, from some distance. Try to do all five steps on the same person.