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Examples of people at risk for compassion fatigue are those who spend significant time responding to information related to suffering. [31] However, newer research by Singer and Ricard suggests that it is lack of suitable distress tolerance that gets people fatigued from compassion activities. [ 32 ]
The Lojong teachings in Universal Compassion have been used by caregivers, healers and hospice workers in the UK and US both to help them cope and to find effective techniques to manage the suffering of the ill and the dying. [4] For example, hospice psychologist Kathleen Dowling Singh (author of Grace in Dying) explains:
Charter for Compassion is a document written in 2009 that urges the peoples and religions of the world to embrace the core value of compassion. [1] The charter is available in more than 30 languages and has been endorsed by more than two million individuals.
Self-compassion focuses on soothing and comforting the self when faced with distressing experiences. [50] Self-compassion is composed of three components; self kindness versus self-judgement, a sense of common humanity versus isolation and mindfulness versus over-identification when confronting painful thoughts and emotions. [50]
It includes feelings of sympathy, compassion, softheartedness, tenderness, sorrow, sadness, upset, distress, concern, and grief. Fourth, empathic concern is other-oriented in the sense that it involves feeling for the other—feeling sympathy for, compassion for, sorry for, distressed for, concerned for, and so on. [3]
“Josiah influenced many hearts as he was a true example of compassion, kindness and love." University President Joseph Hopkins remembered Kilman as a “beloved member of our community” and ...
Moral emotions include disgust, shame, pride, anger, guilt, compassion, and gratitude, [5] and help to provide people with the power and energy to do good and avoid doing bad. [4] Moral emotions are linked to a person's conscience - these are the emotions that make up a conscience and promote learning the difference between right and wrong ...
As for the mentally ill roaming our city, Torres said allowing them “to languish on the streets and subways of New York is cruelty cloaked in compassion” — adding that Ramon Rivera’s fatal ...