By Eve Ekman — 2020
A Q&A with Tara Brach about offering radical compassion to yourself and others.
Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu
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According to the dictionary, to forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward yourself or others for some perceived offense, flaw, or mistake. Keeping that definition in mind, forgiveness becomes a form of compassion.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.
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Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.
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As human beings, our predominant agenda is to survive. The instinct is deep in our DNA. Of course we want to stay alive, but now this instinct has become more of an emotional response. It's less about a threat to our actual existence and more about the barrage of perceived threats to our ego.