ARTICLE
Practicing G.R.A.C.E.: How to Bring Compassion into Your Interactions with Others
By Joan Halifax — 2012
My hope is that the G.R.A.C.E. model will help you to actualize compassion in your own life and that the impact of this will ripple out to benefit the people with whom you interact each day as well as countless others.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
CLEAR ALL
BY TOPIC
BY TEACHER
BY TYPE
FILTER
TOPIC
- Compassion (36)
- Well-Being (28)
- Work-Life Balance (27)
- Stress (24)
- Self-Care (22)
- Handling a Loved One’s Illness (20)
- Cancer (18)
- Empathy (17)
- Self-Mastery (17)
- Hospice (16)
- Mindfulness (16)
- Emotional Labor (15)
- Resilience (15)
- Compassion Fatigue (14)
- Creative Well-Being (14)
- Meditation (14)
- Emotional and Mental Health (13)
- Self-Compassion (13)
- Facing Own Death (12)
- Leadership (12)
- Offering Support to Others (12)
- Anxiety (10)
- Athlete Well-Being (10)
- Building Character (10)
- Grief (10)
- Life Challenges (10)
- Motherhood (10)
- Asking for Help (9)
- Death-Positive Movement (9)
- Job Loss (9)
- Living with Illness (9)
- Motivation (9)
- Parenting (9)
- Activism/Service (8)
- Buddhism (8)
- Compassion Meditation (8)
- Happiness (8)
- Kindness (8)
- Mind-Body Connection (8)
- Neuroscience (8)
- Search for Purpose (8)
- BIPOC Well-Being (7)
- Entrepreneurship (7)
- Handling a Child’s Illness (7)
- Neurodiversity (7)
- Self-Development (7)
- Self-Discovery (7)
- Sleep (7)
- Suffering (7)
- Women’s Well-Being (7)
- Authenticity (6)
- Awareness (6)
- Breathwork (6)
- Death or Loss of a Loved One (6)
- Depression (6)
- Fellowship and Community (6)
- Growth Mindset (6)
- Habits of Mind (6)
- Letting Go (6)
- Physical Health (6)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (6)
- Values (6)
- ADD/ADHD (5)
- Anger (5)
- Communication Skills (5)
- Family Dynamics (5)
- Fear (5)
- Gender Challenges (5)
- Gratitude (5)
- Honoring Emotion (5)
- Inner Peace (5)
- Lovingkindness (5)
- Lovingkindness Meditation (5)
- Rest (5)
- Work Relationships (5)
- Young Adult Well-Being (5)
- Chronic Health Conditions (4)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (4)
- Connection with Nature (4)
- Death or Loss of a Child (4)
- Dementia (4)
- Disabled Well-Being (4)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (4)
- Focus (4)
- Guilt (4)
- Identity (4)
- Kids and Sports (4)
- Mindfulness Meditation (4)
- Passion (4)
- Productivity (4)
- Self-Actualization (4)
- Self-Healing (4)
- Self-Pressure (4)
- Self-Worth (4)
- Shame (4)
- Trust (4)
- Acceptance (3)
- Afterlife (3)
- Aging (3)
- Autism (3)
- Belonging (3)
- Black Well-Being (3)
- Child’s Emotional Growth (3)
- Child’s Trauma (3)
- Climate Change (3)
- Cognitive Psychology (3)
- Community Healing (3)
- Confidence (3)
- Conscience (3)
- Exercise (3)
- Finding Meaning (3)
- Forgiveness (3)
- Generosity (3)
- Inner Life (3)
- Inner Strengths (3)
- Intention (3)
- LGBTQIA Well-Being (3)
- Love (3)
- Mindfulness Practices (3)
- Negative Self-Talk (3)
- Neuroplasticity (3)
- Patience (3)
- Peak Performance (3)
- Presence (3)
- Quitting Your Job (3)
- Relationship Challenges (3)
- Relationship with Time (3)
- Self-Acceptance (3)
- Self-Control (3)
- Self-Love (3)
- Self-Reflection Practices (3)
- Spiritual Life (3)
- Trauma Healing (3)
- Traumatic Grief (3)
- Vulnerability (3)
- Affirmations (2)
- Body Scan Meditation (2)
- Building Culture (2)
- Child’s Autism (2)
- Collaboration (2)
- Connection (2)
- Courage (2)
- Death or Loss of a Parent (2)
- Decision Making (2)
- Diet and Nutrition (2)
- Discrimination (2)
- Empowerment (2)
- Failure (2)
- Fatigue (2)
- Gender Discrimination (2)
- Global Challenges (2)
- Goal Setting (2)
- Healthy Eating (2)
- Illness and Injury (2)
- Imagination and Creativity (2)
- Indigenous Well-Being (2)
- Inspiration (2)
- Joy (2)
- Loneliness (2)
- Longevity (2)
- Loss of Partner/Spouse (2)
- Mentoring (2)
- Near-Death Experience (2)
- Panic Attacks (2)
- Personal Development (2)
- Play (2)
- Polyvagal Theory (2)
- Positive Thinking (2)
- PTSD (2)
- Retirement (2)
- Self-Reckoning (2)
- Self-Reliance (2)
- Shadow (2)
- Slumps (2)
- Spiritual Development (2)
- Spiritual Growth (2)
- Unfulfilled Career (2)
- Women’s Rights (2)
- Yoga (2)
- AAPI Well-Being (1)
- Addiction Recovery (1)
- Anger Management (1)
- Animal Connection (1)
- Art Therapy (1)
- Autoimmune Disease (1)
- Betrayal (1)
- Biofeedback (1)
- Child’s Challenging Behavior (1)
- Children’s Well-Being (1)
- Christianity (1)
- Chronic Fatigue (1)
- Coming Out (1)
- Competition (1)
- Consciousness (1)
- Curiosity (1)
- Digital Life (1)
- Disconnection (1)
- Dysfunctional Childhood (1)
- Economic Justice (1)
- Embodiment (1)
- Energy Healing (1)
- Female Empowerment (1)
- Female Friendship (1)
- Financial Instability (1)
- Forest Bathing (1)
- Freedom (1)
- Friendship (1)
- Gender Identity (1)
- Gender Justice (1)
- Grit (1)
- Guided Imagery (1)
- Guided Meditation (1)
- Habit Formation (1)
- Healing Touch (1)
- Highly Sensitive People (1)
- Homophobia (1)
- Household Labor (1)
- Human Potential (1)
- Immigration and Assimilation (1)
- Immortality (1)
- Insomnia (1)
- Integrative Medicine (1)
- Integrity (1)
- Interdependence (1)
- Journaling (1)
- Latinx Well-Being (1)
- Leaving a Religion (1)
- LGBTQIA Sexuality (1)
- Life Force Energy (1)
- Living as an Empath (1)
- Managing Energy (1)
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics (1)
- Mediums (1)
- Men’s Well-Being (1)
- Mental Health Challenges (1)
- Nonbinary Well-Being (1)
- Optimism (1)
- Othering (1)
- Past Life Regression (1)
- Past Lives and Reincarnation (1)
- Perception (1)
- Performance Pressure (1)
- Positive Psychology (1)
- Poverty/Economic Inequality (1)
- Problem Solving (1)
- Psychology (1)
- Quantum Physics (1)
- Racial Discrimination (1)
- Racial Justice (1)
- Racism (1)
- Relationship with Money (1)
- Science and Spirituality (1)
- Self-Employment (1)
- Self-Expression (1)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (1)
- Sexual Assault or Abuse (1)
- Sleep Disorders (1)
- Social Anxiety (1)
- Social Presence (1)
- Social Psychology (1)
- Social Responsibility (1)
- Somatic Practices (1)
- Soul Mission (1)
- Speaking Your Truth (1)
- Spiritual Awakening (1)
- Spiritual Direction (1)
- Spiritual Healing (1)
- Spirituality and Health (1)
- Stoicism (1)
- Suicide (1)
- Taoism (1)
- Tarot (1)
- Teacher Burnout (1)
- The Divine (1)
- Time Management (1)
- Transformation (1)
- Transgender Well-Being (1)
- Trauma (1)
- Unconscious Bias (1)
- Wake-Up Calls (1)
- Willpower (1)
- Work Ethic (1)
- Yoga Therapy (1)
- Zen Buddhism (1)
FILTER
TEACHER
- Marc Ian Barasch (4)
- Scott Shute (4)
- Tara Brach (4)
- BJ Miller (3)
- Edward Hallowell (3)
- Joanne Cacciatore (3)
- Paul Gilbert (3)
- Rick Hanson (3)
- Sharon Salzberg (3)
- Stephen Levine (3)
- Arianna Huffington (2)
- Deepak Chopra (2)
- Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2)
- Emiliana Simon-Thomas (2)
- Ethan Nichtern (2)
- Jacqueline Carter (2)
- Jay Shetty (2)
- Mark Manson (2)
- Mirabai Bush (2)
- Ram Dass (2)
- Richard Davidson (2)
- Stephen Porges (2)
- Toni Bernhard (2)
- Wim Hof (2)
- Adam Grant (1)
- Amy Morin (1)
- Arielle Schwartz (1)
- Ashley Neese (1)
- Atul Gawande (1)
- Aviva Romm (1)
- Belleruth Naparstek (1)
- Christiane Northrup (1)
- Connie Zweig (1)
- Dacher Keltner (1)
- Daniel Goleman (1)
- Dave Asprey (1)
- don Jose Ruiz (1)
- Duane Elgin (1)
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1)
- Forrest Hanson (1)
- Gabrielle Bernstein (1)
- Helen Weng (1)
- J. Krishnamurti (1)
- Jack Kornfield (1)
- James Baraz (1)
- James Doty (1)
- Jessica Dore (1)
- Joan Borysenko (1)
- Joan Halifax (1)
- Joanna Macy (1)
- Judith Orloff (1)
- Kamilah Majied (1)
- Kristin Neff (1)
- Light Watkins (1)
- Linda Graham (1)
- Lise Van Susteren (1)
- Lorin Roche (1)
- Martha Beck (1)
- Ondrea Levine (1)
- Oprah Winfrey (1)
- Oshoke Pamela Abalu (1)
- Poppy Jamie (1)
- Rachel Held Evans (1)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
- Ralph De La Rosa (1)
- Rich Fernandez (1)
- Robert Sapolsky (1)
- Robert Thurman (1)
- Saeed Jones (1)
- Stan Tatkin (1)
- Stephen Covey (1)
- Sue Morter (1)
- Swami Mukundananda (1)
- Temple Grandin (1)
- Thich Nhat Hanh (1)
- Thubten Chodron (1)
- Tony Robbins (1)