What Really Helps: Using Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence to Help, Support, and Encourage Others - Softcover

Wegela, Karen Kissel

 
9781590308806: What Really Helps: Using Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence to Help, Support, and Encourage Others
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1590308808 ISBN 13: 9781590308806
Verlag: Shambhala, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Most of us, at one time or another, would like to help a friend, family member, or acquaintance through a challenging time. But do we really know how to give meaningful support and guidance? And why do our best efforts at helping others often come up short? Here is a practical guide that will be of special interest to helping professionals—and anyone who wants to make a positive difference in the lives of people they care about.

To be truly helpful to others, Karen Wegela explains, we must begin by focusing on ourselves. We must develop greater awareness, steadiness of mind, fearlessness, and self-compassion. Only then can we extend these qualities to the people we’d like to help. Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist and on her longtime study of Buddhist meditation, Wegela emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness, or learning to become fully present in our moment-to-moment experience. Through mindfulness we develop a fearless, compassionate presence in our daily lives—and we become better listeners, take wiser actions, and give more valuable, effective guidance to the people we’d like to help.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Karen Kissel Wegela, PhD, is a psychotherapist and professor of contemplative psychology at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. A longtime student of Buddhism, she speaks to professionals about the connections between Buddhism and psychotherapy and writes a popular blog at psychologytoday.com. She is also the author of The Courage to Be Present: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Awakening of Natural Wisdom.

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Verlag
Shambhala
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1590308808
ISBN 13 
9781590308806
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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