From the course: The Power of Broadening Compassion
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Recognizing fears of compassion
From the course: The Power of Broadening Compassion
Recognizing fears of compassion
- [Instructor] As I mentioned at the start of this session, courage doesn't require getting rid of your fears, it requires a different relationship to them. The most skillful way to work with fears of compassion is to shine the light of compassionate awareness on them. I recently had the chance to talk about this with one of my CCare colleagues. Adam Bern is a veteran of the US Air Force who started his journey of strengthening compassion as a student in one of my compassion cultivation courses. He then became certified to teach the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Program and he also studies war related illness and injury at the VA Healthcare System in Palo Alto. Our conversation started because I wanted his perspective on a study that had come out. And that study was looking at the benefits of compassion meditation for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. That study found that compassion training led to large…