Where Compassion Begins: Foundational Practices to Enhance Mindfulness, Attention and Listening from the Heart Seide Jared
Where Compassion Begins: Foundational Practices to Enhance Mindfulness, Attention and Listening from the Heart Seide Jared Compassion is sometimes confused with empathy, or even sympathy. Compassion…
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Where Compassion Begins: Foundational Practices to Enhance Mindfulness, Attention and Listening from the Heart Seide Jared
Compassion is sometimes confused with empathy, or even sympathy. Compassion begins when we allow ourselves to really hear and attune to suffering, that of others, as well as ourselves. It is neither, though it includes some aspects of both.
What takes compassion beyond sympathy or empathy is that it includes action, action that is considered, skillful and beneficial.Council is a foundational practice that builds our capacity to perceive the experience of others and invites us to pay attention. And hearing and perceiving this anguish, we are moved to do something about it. When we listen differently to someone's story, without judging, we create the conditions for compassion to arise.
Council asks us to lean in, to learn ways we can skillfully attend to the pain we recognize in ourselves and others, and to do something helpful in response. This book is an invitation