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The Compassionate Instinct
The Dalai Lama has been telling us for years that it would make us happy, but he never said it would make us healthy, too. “If you want others to be happy,” reads the first part of his famous formula, “practice compassion.” Then comes the second part of the prescription:…
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James R. Doty, M.D. to Participate in Unique National Forum Around 10th Anniversary Innovative Program Explores Ways to Break “Conflict Gridlock” to Create Peace
On Sept. 8th and 9th, a diverse group of some of the nations leading thinkers from science, religion, arts, and business, will gather in N.Y. around the 10th anniversary of 9-11 to reflect on a new way forward, by sharing their wisdom through traditional stories both sacred and secular, and…
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Watch the TEDxGoldenGateED COMPASSION Conference LIVE
You’re invited to watch the live webcast of TEDxGoldenGateED on Saturday, June 11th from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) in the United States. An incredibly diverse and impressive field of speakers will tell us about the new science of compassion. We’ll also see how compassion helps…
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Hugging Yourself Reduces Physical Pain
Cheaper than a massage, and fewer side effects than popping pills: A new study reports that crossing your arms can significantly relieve pain. Twenty brave participants (12 of them women) allowed scientists to inflict pain via pulses of radiant heat from an infrared laser. The laser was aimed at the…
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Is Being Compassionate Healthy?
Compassion is defined as the embodiment and recognition of another person’s suffering coupled with a sincere desire to alleviate that suffering. Every one of us has suffered, is suffering or will, at some point, suffer. It has been stated many times that survival is of the fittest, but when one…
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The Power of Self-Compassion
The number one most emailed article on the New York Times, at the time I’m writing this, is a blog post by Tara Parker-Pope on the importance of self-compassion for making a change such as losing weight or quitting smoking. It is striking that the article is the most emailed…
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