Compassion practice
Connect loving kindness, inner balance, attention to others and compassionate action.
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- Situations
Guiding idea
Start here if compassion — for yourself, others or in general — is currently a supporting aspect.
Decision aid
This group shows compassion as several related movements: Loving-Kindness cultivates warm wishes, Wise Mind holds compassion in a balanced inner center, Mindfulness of Others opens perception to the other person, Opposite Action puts compassion into practice when an unhelpful urge pulls in the opposite direction. The cluster helps you distinguish whether warmth, balance, perception or concrete counter-action is needed more.
One possible starting point
Loving Kindness
Better to start here when warmth, benevolence and kind wishes should be cultivated deliberately.
Also in: Interpersonal Effectiveness
Other options
Mindfulness of Others
Better to start here when the other person first needs to be perceived more closely before compassion can hold.
Also in: Mindfulness · Emotion Regulation
Opposite Action
Better to start here when an unfitting urge such as withdrawal, attack or devaluation should be undercut by a more compassionate action.
Also in: Distress Tolerance
Wise Mind
Better to start here when compassion should be steered neither by emotional pressure nor by cool distance alone.
Also in: Distress Tolerance · Emotion Regulation · Interpersonal Effectiveness