Compassion

The Dalai Lama once said, “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” However, while this statement may ring true for the innocents, some may argue that monsters of society are undeserving of such compassion. Undeniably, there are such beasts in To Kill a Mockingbird’s Maycomb county – Mayella Ewell is willing to go along with her father’s plan to frame an innocent man for the most medieval of crimes, rape; Boo Radley is gossipped about throughout…

Self-compassion is stretching out sympathy to one's self in occasions of saw insufficiency, disappointment, or general enduring. Kristin Neff (2003) has characterized self-compassion as being made out of three primary sub-components which are - self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. A short definition of each of the sub-components is as follows: Self-kindness: Self-empathy involves being warm towards oneself when experiencing agony and individual inadequacies, as opposed to…

needs of others before your own. However, one very important question is oftentimes overlooked or never asked at all. Who takes care of the care giver? In, “We grieve too: One Inpatient Oncology Unit’s Interventions for Recognizing and Combating Compassion Fatigue”, this very question is addressed. The setting of this article is at the Lancaster General Hospital Oncology ward. The hospital houses 540 beds and is magnet-designated. Their employment turnover rate went from 5.5 % in 2009 and…

Chapter Five Five Strategies to Combat Compassion Fatigue The fifth chapter is the final presentation of the thesis projects conveying five approaches to combat the negative symptoms and signs of compassion fatigue. The action steps are suggestive tools to slow down or counteract the process of stress or burning out in spiritual leaders and persons who provide care. The strategies will seek to provide a framework for both understanding and, optimistically, inoculating against potential stress…

to provide holistic care treating individuals across the board with compassion, respect, and without judgment. Compassion and Respect…

Another group that requires others’ compassion and selflessness is the disabled. Compassion and selflessness allow someone to aid people in need. For instance, when Vahan’s friend became sick form an infection after giving birth, Vahan couldn’t stop thinking about her, and he and his new father, Mr. Tashian, gave her all of the assistance she required. During this event, Vahan said, “She was plagued by crippling headaches and sometimes stayed in her room all day… I did my chores and worried that…

Mindfulness foster compassion Quoting Buddha “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” Mindfulness is different, it focuses on awareness, it fosters compassion towards our own self. Well, one may ask what does compassion has to do with physiological issue? Well, let me explain. Let’s say there are two kind of people. First, the ones who often keep doubting himself, being hard on whatever he does, potentially doubting every action and emotions. Where else, there…

1. Explain why the compassion gap is problematic. From your perspective, what needs to happen to eliminate the compassion gap? There are a plethora of laws in effect that state one cannot be discriminated against for various reasons. However, there are many subtle forms of discrimination that exist even today. In my opinion, discrimination is one of the driving forces responsible for those living in poverty. Subtle forms of discrimination, particularly racism, continues to allow further…

technology, and intelligence. However, looking at their current state, can one truly call them the higher of the animals? Maybe it is more appropriate to refer them as: The Human Race, the lowest of the high due wastefulness, cruelty, and lack of compassion for one another. It was once said “Waste not, want not” (Lanier, Davis). This was a term during the time of the great depression. Twain, in his essay “The…

Since empathy and compassion is a balance point, then to have a balance, there must be the opposite. If our city doesn't have a level of fear, then what keeps empathy and compassion from tipping over the scale and possibly creating a backlash? Similar to what Thucydides says: "the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must," but, the strong do what they can because that is a sort of harmony. Even if people try to be as compassionate and empathic as possible, there will always be…