Awareness
Throughout this week, I was being mindful about compassion and it came up multiple times. When I was walking back from practice with some of my teammates, one of them told me that she has anxiety and told me how that affected her everyday life. I felt bad for her, and wanted to help her out the best I could, so it would not be something she would not get another anxiety attack – and if she did, I would help her out. Her pain in her anxiety made me feel sympathy for her and made me want to help her the best I could.
Another episode in this week where compassion came to mind was when my roommate told me she had gained a lot of weight and she needed help to loose some. I offered to help her out with nutrition, since she felt really bad that she gained as much weight as she did and I wanted to help her in any way that I could. Analysis
1. Compassion is the same as feeling sympathy for someone.
2. A) What is compassion?: compassion is a feeling of sympathy for another person who is suffering accompanied with the motivation to relieve this suffering. …show more content…
An irrational belief that hit me while my automatic interpretations and involuntary reactions occurred, was the fact that I felt like I would not have the time to help my roommate loose weight.
A fallacy that hit me was when my teammate told me that she mostly kept her anxiety to herself; I assumed that it was because she was ashamed of her condition and afraid how people might react. Despite the fact that I was right in my assumption, me jumping to conclusion was a hasty generalization.
6. Me not having the time to help out my roommate with her weight-lost is irrational, Since I could help her out with nutrition and conditioning. The reason why I thought I would not have the time was because I did not want to put the effort into it. Since it is not my issue, I was not compassionated enough to wanting to put in all my time to help her out, leading my lizard brain to the assumption that I did not have the
Throughout this week, I was being mindful about compassion and it came up multiple times. When I was walking back from practice with some of my teammates, one of them told me that she has anxiety and told me how that affected her everyday life. I felt bad for her, and wanted to help her out the best I could, so it would not be something she would not get another anxiety attack – and if she did, I would help her out. Her pain in her anxiety made me feel sympathy for her and made me want to help her the best I could.
Another episode in this week where compassion came to mind was when my roommate told me she had gained a lot of weight and she needed help to loose some. I offered to help her out with nutrition, since she felt really bad that she gained as much weight as she did and I wanted to help her in any way that I could. Analysis
1. Compassion is the same as feeling sympathy for someone.
2. A) What is compassion?: compassion is a feeling of sympathy for another person who is suffering accompanied with the motivation to relieve this suffering. …show more content…
An irrational belief that hit me while my automatic interpretations and involuntary reactions occurred, was the fact that I felt like I would not have the time to help my roommate loose weight.
A fallacy that hit me was when my teammate told me that she mostly kept her anxiety to herself; I assumed that it was because she was ashamed of her condition and afraid how people might react. Despite the fact that I was right in my assumption, me jumping to conclusion was a hasty generalization.
6. Me not having the time to help out my roommate with her weight-lost is irrational, Since I could help her out with nutrition and conditioning. The reason why I thought I would not have the time was because I did not want to put the effort into it. Since it is not my issue, I was not compassionated enough to wanting to put in all my time to help her out, leading my lizard brain to the assumption that I did not have the