When you are compassionate towards others, you will notice a sense of calm and serenity within yourself and your surroundings. It requires enough willpower to stand by those who are dealing with problems and facing challenges in their daily lives.
As humans, we are often so self-centric that we tend to forget our abilities to stand by others and help them in times of need. A couple of years back, I decided to take a volunteer trip to Kenya and worked at a childcare center , where mostly orphaned and abandoned kids were sheltered.
As I showered them with love, took care of them, shared happiness and laughter — I felt a sort of completeness within myself. Coming back to the point, compassion essentially refers to the willingness to give selflessly.
T o say the least, compassion is the greatest gift that one human being can share with another. If you have a story of compassion to share, let us know in the comments below. Riyanka is a traveler who is keen on exploring different parts of the world. She's a freelance blogger who's equally passionate about photography. Compassion increases the possibilities for peace and reconciliation where there is conflict.
Compassion is contagious and spreads outwards , inspiring further acts of compassion and kindness when witnessed and experienced. Did you find this article helpful? Share it on social media, and feel free to comment below. Oldest Newest Most Voted. Inline Feedbacks.
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Challenge prejudices In order to be a compassionate person, we must let go of prejudice. It is impossible to be free of all prejudgment—we simply could not live in the world without some assumptions.
However, effective leaders are able to suspend automatic judgment, and can work to understand other people without filters. Effective leaders care enough to want to learn about other people, to feel what they feel and see the world the way they do.
And then they do something with it. When compassion is experienced, a person does not assume or expect reciprocity or an equal exchange. Compassion means giving selflessly.
This goes beyond the common definition of compassion in the West and within Buddhist philosophy; both traditions tend to link compassion with empathy and caring for others who are in pain. We believe compassion incorporates the desire to reach out and help others whether or not their condition is based on suffering and pain. Our definition of compassion, then, is closer to that of Confucian philosophy: compassion is the emotional expression of the virtue of benevolence.
People often confuse sympathy, that is, feeling sorry for someone, with caring about someone and feeling compassion. Freud and others fueled this perspective. Even today, some of the widely used measures of this motivation look at how people are more likely to attempt to avoid rejection rather than to act on their non-anxious desire and enjoyment of being close with others.
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