What is Compassion

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A set of emotions that sums up to a shift in the perception of the plight of others as being close to one’s own experience and understanding. Learn more in: What Do Emotions Have to Do With It?: The Opportunities Offered by Affect in Reforming English Language Education

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Compassion is defined as a cultivation of self-regulation through meditation practice with the magnitude of emotional response ( Lutz et al., 2008 ). Learn more in: FOSCE: A Scale Measuring Equanimity Defined on the Tenets of Swadharma and Its Role in Contributing to Workplace Spirituality

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Compassion is being linked emotionally, as an individual, to a suffering community. So compassion covers bigger entities, such as the community. Compassion leads to processes such as those that (1) increase integrative thinking, (2) induce pro-social judgements regarding the costs and benefits of social entrepreneurship, and (3) foster commitment to alleviate the suffering of others. Learn more in: Exploring the Personal Drive Behind Small Social-Venture Set-Ups in the Netherlands: Encounters With Local Help and Hindrance

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Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings. Learn more in: Experiences of Meditation on Twin Hearts by Naive Practitioners

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Having compassion for others is to recognize their pain and to take action to help ease that pain. It is a perceptible or evident action to improve things for another person who is hurting. Learn more in: Collegiality vs. Competition: The Five Cs of Collegiality

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Empathizing with others and understanding what it feels to be in others’ “shoes.” Learn more in: Challenging Fear and Hate: Caring and Compassion as Essential Components of a Critical Pedagogy School Curriculum

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The process of acknowledging and reducing others’ suffering. Learn more in: Compassion and Empathy as Transformative Intervention Approaches: The Management of Cyberbullying Issues Among Working Professionals

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“A way of living born out of an awareness of one’s relationship to all living creatures…a quality of presence which allows one to share with and make room for the other” (McCance et al., 1999, p. 1391). Learn more in: Online Instruction as a Caring Endeavor

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Literally meaning “to experience together,” compassion is the feeling that arises when one individual encounters the suffering of another and is motivated to relieve it. Learn more in: Cultivating Compassion in an Upper Elementary School Classroom Community