Pema Chodron fans may be familiar with a practice she encourages called “tonglen.” Tonglen practice is a wonderful way to work with difficult emotions and, as Pema Chodron says, to connect with suffering. And it’s simple. One sits quietly and breathes in the pain or difficult feelings of a situation, and breathes out relief. In with pain and difficulty, out with relief, spaciousness, good wishes, compassion.
Opening Your Heart, Expanding Your Vision
Whatever happened to empathy? Where have solidarity, charity, and compassion gone? A series of earth-shattering social, economic, and technological trends converged to render empathy a tedious nuisance best avoided. Foremost among these is the emergen…
This is how we get locked out of each other’s experiences: move up enough and you forget the bottom rung, either because it was an awful place for you or because you were never there to begin with. There is, of course, a third option in that you …
Danish children are exposed to lessons as early as preschool that are specifically designed to foster feelings of empathy and understanding.The Atlantic reports a program called Step by Step presents young students with pictures of kids showing a range…
The art of thinking together Empathy means to achieve understanding and to make previously hidden potential source of personal satisfaction, good relationships, social recognition and professional success. How would I feel, I would be at his or her pla…
