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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

By Erin Clabough — 2019

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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We Are Built to Be Kind

Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry.

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Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’

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The Exercise That Could Help You Transcend Resentment | Super Soul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

For over 35 years, Buddhist nun and author Pema Chödrön has inspired millions around the world with her teachings on love, kindness, and compassion. Pema believes that beneath anger, confusion and fear is a basic goodness that connects us all.

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The Science of a Happy Mind, Part 2 | Nat Geo Live

Renowned neuroscientist Richard Davidson is finding that happiness is something we can cultivate and a skill that can be learned. Working with the Dalai Lama, Davidson is investigating the far-reaching impact of mindfulness, meditation, and the cultivation of kindness on human health and well-being.

Richard Davidson

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Healing Self-Injury: A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury.

Janis Whitlock, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson

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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions.

Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson

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Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

If you change your brain, you can change your life. Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s―and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world.

Rick Hanson, Richard Mendius, Daniel Siegel (foreword), Jack Kornfield (preface)

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Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Grounded in mindfulness and neuroscience, this pioneering book redefines discipline and outlines the five essential elements necessary for children to thrive: unconditional love, space for children to be themselves, mentorship, healthy boundaries, and mis-takes that create learning and growth...

Shauna Shapiro, Chris White, Christine Carter (foreword), Dean Ornish (foreword)

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Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher.

Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit (foreword)

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Culture Shock + Compassion = Community | Ibrahima Sow | TEDxYearlingRoad

Coming to the United States at a young age, Ibrahima Sow endured a number of experiences that qualified as culture shock. Navigating his way in this new world, he met each challenge with heart and courage all the while determined to maintain his identity.

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