The Compassionate Presence

Author : Rolf R. Nolasco Jr.,Rob Vincent MacDonald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498202046

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Compassionate Presence by Rolf R. Nolasco Jr.,Rob Vincent MacDonald Pdf

Compassion plays a central role in the teachings of all world religions. Christianity in particular demonstrates its vitality through compassionate engagement with those suffering with Christ serving as a paradigm and source of motive power. These concrete acts of mercy and solidarity disclose God's intimate regard for the welfare of humanity. The purpose of this book is to affirm compassion as the pulsating heartbeat of Christian theology and praxis through the hermeneutical perspectives of brain science, psychology, and practical theology. More importantly, it offers readers specific compassion cultivation practices that will nurture the trait of compassion as a way of incarnating God's compassionate presence and response to a world marked with suffering of all kinds.

Author : Stephen R. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : New Age movement
ISBN : 0936415096

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Author : Stephen R. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0936415193

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Author : Rolf R. Nolasco,Rob Vincent MacDonald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498202039

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Compassionate Presence by Rolf R. Nolasco,Rob Vincent MacDonald Pdf

Compassion plays a central role in the teachings of all world religions. Christianity in particular demonstrates its vitality through compassionate engagement with those suffering with Christ serving as a paradigm and source of motive power. These concrete acts of mercy and solidarity disclose God's intimate regard for the welfare of humanity. The purpose of this book is to affirm compassion as the pulsating heartbeat of Christian theology and praxis through the hermeneutical perspectives of brain science, psychology, and practical theology. More importantly, it offers readers specific compassion cultivation practices that will nurture the trait of compassion as a way of incarnating God's compassionate presence and response to a world marked with suffering of all kinds.

Author : Karen Kissel Wegela
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0834827344

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What Really Helps by Karen Kissel Wegela Pdf

Most of us, at one time or another, would like to help a friend, family member, or acquaintance through a challenging time. But do we really know how to give meaningful support and guidance? And why do our best efforts at helping others often come up short? Here is a practical guide that will be of special interest to helping professionals—and anyone who wants to make a positive difference in the lives of people they care about. To be truly helpful to others, Karen Wegela explains, we must begin by focusing on ourselves. We must develop greater awareness, steadiness of mind, fearlessness, and self-compassion. Only then we can extend these qualities to the people we’d like to help. Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist and on her longtime study of Buddhist meditation, Wegela emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness, or learning to become fully present in our moment-to-moment experience. Through mindfulness we develop a fearless, compassionate presence in our daily lives—and we become better listeners, take wiser actions, and give more valuable, effective guidance to the people we’d like to help.

Author : Kathleen D. Benton,Renzo Pegoraro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000172911

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Finding Dignity at the End of Life by Kathleen D. Benton,Renzo Pegoraro Pdf

Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment. The book examines the concept of palliative care as a holistic human right from the perspective of multiple aspects of faith, ideology, culture, and nationality. Integrating a humanities-based approach, chapters provide detailed discussions of spirituality, suffering, and healing from scholars from around the world. Within each chapter, the authors address a different cultural and religious focus by examining how this topic relates to questions of inherent dignity, both ethically and theologically, and how different spiritual lenses may inform our interpretation of medical outcomes. Mental health practitioners, allied professionals, and theologians will find this a useful and reflective guide to palliative care and its connection to faith, spirituality, and culture.

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0834821745

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Being with Dying by Joan Halifax Pdf

The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged with a dying person’s care, facing their own death, or wishing to explore and contemplate the transformative power of the dying process. Her teachings affirm that we can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help others who are suffering to do the same.

Author : Adolfo Quezada
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809145227

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Compassionate Awareness by Adolfo Quezada Pdf

Compassionate Awareness is about experiencing life to the fullest, and allowing the compassion of God to flow through us into the world in mystical, awakened living. "To be absorbed in compassionate awareness means that we receive life with an open heart and tend to it one moment at a time. It means that we partake of the fruit of love and enjoy the magnificence of creation. In prayer and meditation we receive the breath of life and transform it into the presence of God in the world," writes the author. This gracious little book, composed of sixteen brief chapters, is a guide to living the aware life--and a handbook on how to put that life into action through love. Some of the topics the author covers are being one with God, ourselves, creation, and others, as well as how to love consciously, take compassionate action, learn from the compassion of Jesus and transfer it to the world, and to listen and be with others compassionately. Writing simply and movingly, the author evokes a feeling of peace and joy in which readers with find comfort. They will appreciate that a life lived from compassion is a life grounded in God. +

Author : Karen Kissel Wegela
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590308806

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What Really Helps by Karen Kissel Wegela Pdf

Most of us, at one time or another, would like to help a friend, family member, or acquaintance through a challenging time. But do we really know how to give meaningful support and guidance? And why do our best efforts at helping others often come up short? Here is a practical guide that will be of special interest to helping professionals—and anyone who wants to make a positive difference in the lives of people they care about. To be truly helpful to others, Karen Wegela explains, we must begin by focusing on ourselves. We must develop greater awareness, steadiness of mind, fearlessness, and self-compassion. Only then can we extend these qualities to the people we’d like to help. Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist and on her longtime study of Buddhist meditation, Wegela emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness, or learning to become fully present in our moment-to-moment experience. Through mindfulness we develop a fearless, compassionate presence in our daily lives—and we become better listeners, take wiser actions, and give more valuable, effective guidance to the people we’d like to help.

Author : Dennis Tirch
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781849019606

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The Compassionate Mind Approach to Overcoming Anxiety by Dennis Tirch Pdf

We know what it's like to worry from time to time, but for some of us, our worrying can take over and have a serious impact on our lives. When our anxiety gets out of hand and starts to dominate our lives, affecting how we function and our general sense of wellbeing, it's time to do something about it. This accessible self-help guide provides the reader with a clear understanding of how problem anxiety develops, the kinds of problems it's causing them and sets out ground-breaking Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) techniques to overcome their anxiety . CFT was initially developed by Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, author of the bestselling The Compassionate Mind which set out his ground-breaking approach, to treat those with high levels of shame and self-criticism. It uses the proven, research-based techniques of CBT and other therapies with a special focus on the importance of developing inner compassion, in order to alleviate feelings of shame, develop a more balanced outlook and promote resilience. It incorporates elements of mindfulness and Tibetan Buddhism with recent research on human development and studies of the brain. It is increasingly used to treat a wide range of emotional and psychological problems including depression, overeating, shyness, trauma, anxiety and anger.

Author : Tara Brach
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780525522829

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Radical Compassion by Tara Brach Pdf

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.

Author : Joyce Rupp
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781932057157

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Boundless Compassion by Joyce Rupp Pdf

"Living compassionately is rarely convenient and often downright challenging," writes Joyce Rupp, bestselling and award-winning author and retreat leader. The definitive Christian guide to compassion, Boundless Compassion is the culmination of Rupp's research and work as codirector of the Servite Center of Compassionate Presence. Through this six-week personal transformation process for developing and deepening compassion, Rupp nudges, encourages, and inspires you to grow in the kind of love that motivated Jesus’ life and mission for his disciples. With master teacher Joyce Rupp, you will learn to develop compassion as never before. You will discover compassion from science, medicine, theology, spirituality, sociology, and psychology. You will be encouraged to explore personal and professional expressions of compassion, and to re-energize your ability to offer loving kindness to those around you. Rupp has felt the call to walk with others in their suffering since she was a young member of the Servants of Mary, whose charism is compassion. She eventually cofounded the Boundless Compassion program with Sr. Margaret Stratman, O.S.M. Based on the format and theme of Rupp’s bestselling books like Open the Door and her popular workshops conducted by the Center of Compassionate Presence, Boundless Compassion has the power to transform your life, giving you wisdom, confidence, understanding, and inspiration to be a more caring presence. It will help you build on relational skills, learn self-care, gain wisdom for incorporating loss and suffering into your active life, and find ways to show compassion at work. By the book's end, you will feel prepared to live with a renewed commitment to a compassionate presence for yourself and those who are in the midst of pain, struggle, and transition.

Author : Sonia Connolly
Publisher : Sundown Healing Arts
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780983903802

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Wellspring of Compassion by Sonia Connolly Pdf

Connolly offers validation, support, and healing tools for sensitive people healing from childhood abuse and other trauma. Warm, inclusive language and practical exercises help survivors uncover their wellspring of compassion, understand their reactions to trauma, rebuild self-trust, and respond to their inner voices with kindness.

Author : John Paul Lederach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199747580

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The Moral Imagination by John Paul Lederach Pdf

Originally published in hardcover in 2005.

Author : Myriam Mongrain,Dacher Keltner,James Kirby
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889715657

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Expanding the Science of Compassion by Myriam Mongrain,Dacher Keltner,James Kirby Pdf