By Tara Brach — 2014
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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Despair may knock the wind out of you, but when embraced and managed effectively, it can also lift you to even greater heights.
Cultivating insight can help caregivers build resilience to loss.
Building Bridges for Peace brings together young people from Palestine and Israel.
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.
Psychology of compassion is discussed (part 2)
Forgiveness can be incredibly difficult. Robert Enright explains where to start.
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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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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.
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.