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Colleagues Ruth Williamson and Aly Waibel have teamed up to host Central Oregon Compassion Calls. Calls include meditation, facilitated inquiry, group discussion and brief lessons in the practice of mindfulness and self-compassion, and the practice of compassion for others.
All are welcome – email aly@compassioneducation to request the link to join.
Everytime I facilitate a Compassion Cultivation class, I learn more and deepen my practice of compassion. It’s an incredible, ever-renewing and endless resource for me – a source of strength, purpose and calm.
Here are a few of my favorite Science of Compassion resources for you to explore:
Happy researching!
-Aly
“…contemporary research in neuroplasticity, by scientists like Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, finds that even short-term compassion meditation training (30 minutes a day for eight weeks) alters the brain activity in regions associated with positive emotional skills like empathy. That is true for both men and women.”
“Gaining competitive advantage on exams and increasing creativity in business weren’t of the utmost concern to Buddha and other early meditation teachers. As Buddha himself said, “I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.” For Buddha, as for many modern spiritual leaders, the goal of meditation was as simple as that. The heightened control of the mind that meditation offers was supposed to help its practitioners see the world in a new and more compassionate way, allowing them to break free from the categorizations (us/them, self/other) that commonly divide people from one another.
But does meditation work as promised? Is its originally intended effect — the reduction of suffering — empirically demonstrable?”
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