By Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Louise Chester — 2018
Research has found that incorporating compassion into your leadership strategy can increase productivity and happiness.
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It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.
Compassion gets a lot of attention in positive psychology, and for good reason – it’s a major concern of many religious and philosophical leaders, including the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis.
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When it comes to supporting employees to thrive despite the emotional fallout of the pandemic, leaders (and mindfulness) have a critical role to play.
You always knew demonstrating empathy is positive for people, but new research demonstrates its importance for everything from innovation to retention.
Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.
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Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.
It can be powerful medicine for both your mind and relationships.
“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.
If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.