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
As former Utah Republican Senator, Bob Bennett, lay dying, he called his wife and son over to his bed to express his last wish. I have learned many lessons in my studies of genocides on the macro level and bullying on the micro level perpetrated t…
Fifth-grader Stacy Reid says it’s important to care for others because everyone needs help. The Nicolet Elementary School student recently participated in a program being taught to students in kindergarten through fifth grade throu…
Coaching with Compassion Activates the PEANow you know what these modes mean for your mood and your body – what do they mean for coaching someone?Dr. Anthony Jack, the principal investigator of the Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Lab at CWRU, coll…
In both mice and men, stress from the presence of strangers prevents feelings of empathy, a new study reports.’“It turns out that even a shared experience that is as superficial as playing a video game together can move people from the ‘str…
