By D. Killian — 2003
It sounds simple, yet it’s more than a technique for resolving conflict. It’s a different way of understanding human motivation and behavior.
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Compassion is an essential element in society and is vital to the survival of the human race.
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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Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.
Research has found that incorporating compassion into your leadership strategy can increase productivity and happiness.
In man’s world, animals often bear the worst of our dark side, suffering under the stresses of cruelty and ruthlessness, however, being compassionate towards animals may actually be good for your health and well-being, perhaps even prolonging your life.
A recent gathering of compassion researchers reveals new discoveries about how and why humans help each other.
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Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
How to love yourself and others.
Given the state of things, especially in recent weeks, it appears that WE must be the heroes, the spiritual warriors, and bodhisattvas that we seek and that the world needs.
“Accepting and sending out” is a powerful meditation to develop compassion—for ourselves and others. Ethan Nichtern teaches us how to do it in formal practice and on the spot whenever suffering arises.