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Apr 24, 2018 · Habit 3: Set an intention. Renowned meditation teacher Jack Kornfield once wrote that setting one’s intention is like setting the compass for one’s heart. Our intention helps guide our efforts to be compassionate and helps remind us why we are choosing to set time aside for compassion-cultivating practices.
Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering. Compassion is not the same as empathy or altruism, though the concepts are related. While empathy refers more generally to our ability to take the perspective of and ...
Jul 24, 2013 · Compassionate Mind, Healthy Body. Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world. Decades of clinical research has explored the psychology of human suffering. Yet that suffering, as unpleasant as it is, often has a bright side: compassion.
Mar 1, 2004 · Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature. Humans are selfish. It’s so easy to say. The same goes for so many assertions that follow. Greed is good. Altruism is an illusion. Cooperation is for suckers. Competition is natural, war inevitable. The bad in human nature is stronger than the good.
Feb 27, 2013 · More recently, we examined the impact of mindfulness training on counseling psychology students and discovered that it significantly increased self-compassion—which, in turn, led to declines in stress and negative emotion and increases in positive emotion. Basically, the research shows that mindfulness increases empathy and compassion for ...
Sep 11, 2012 · A motivational component: “I want to help you”. The most compelling benefit of compassion in the context of work is that compassion creates highly effective leaders. To become a highly effective leader, you need to go through an important transformation. Bill George, the widely respected former CEO of Medtronic puts it most succinctly ...
Apr 1, 2014 · Self-awareness through mindfulness practices like meditation, silent prayer, or being in nature allow compassionate men to embrace suffering without reacting, resisting, or repressing. Thich Nhat Hanh says that mindfulness holds suffering tenderly “like a mother holding a baby.”.
May 17, 2018 · Make sure your body language matches your (compassionate) words and tone. Another way to show compassion is by keeping the conversation at someone’s eye level and appropriately employing friendly touch on the outer edges of their body. Additionally, mirroring another’s body positioning and posture can convey respect and establish trust.
Mar 31, 2017 · Compassionate workers focus on supporting others, which may lower their blood pressure, stress, and depression while boosting their self-esteem. And training in compassion can make us more resilient to stress. When work gets intense, in other words, it’s the compassionate employees who are better able to stay calm and engaged.
May 23, 2013 · A study published earlier this year, also in Psychological Science, suggests that training in mindfulness meditation significantly increases compassionate behavior. But this new study is noteworthy for several reasons. For one thing, many of the previous studies have examined trainings that took several hours a week for at least eight weeks ...
