Emotional awareness :
Emotional awareness : overcoming the obstacles to psychological balance and compassion : a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman /
edited by Paul Ekman.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Times Books, 2008.
- xxiv, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index.
Foreword / by Daniel Goleman -- Introduction / by Paul Ekman -- East and West. Two traditions ; Science, religion, and truth ; The filter of moods ; When emotions are destructive ; Attachment and control ; The poverty of emotional language -- Experiencing emotion. What are emotions? ; Obstacles to constructive emotional experiences ; Calming difficult people ; Mindfulness ; The refractory period ; Emotional scripts -- Emotional balance. Meditative practice ; How high the bar ; The startle and the buffer ; Forgiveness and responsibility -- Anger, resentment, and hatred. Preparing for anger ; Expressing anger ; The varieties of anger ; The actor and the act ; The relatives of anger ; Motivating anger -- The nature of compassion. Defining compassion ; Compassion from an evolutionary perspective ; Animal intelligence ; Unbiased compassion ; Cultivating connectedness ; Cultivating consciousness ; The balance of wisdom and compassion ; Empathy, intelligence, and wisdom -- Global compassion. Extending the limits of compassion ; Releasing resentments ; Learning altruism ; Achieving emotional balance ; Gratitude and rejoicing ; Mental training gymnasiums -- Personal transformation. Changing the experience of emotion ; The mystery of goodness ; The path of reason.
9780805087123 0805087125
2008008848
Ekman, Paul--Interviews.
Bstan-�dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- Interviews.
Emotions.
Compassion.
BF531 / .E498 2008
152.4
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index.
Foreword / by Daniel Goleman -- Introduction / by Paul Ekman -- East and West. Two traditions ; Science, religion, and truth ; The filter of moods ; When emotions are destructive ; Attachment and control ; The poverty of emotional language -- Experiencing emotion. What are emotions? ; Obstacles to constructive emotional experiences ; Calming difficult people ; Mindfulness ; The refractory period ; Emotional scripts -- Emotional balance. Meditative practice ; How high the bar ; The startle and the buffer ; Forgiveness and responsibility -- Anger, resentment, and hatred. Preparing for anger ; Expressing anger ; The varieties of anger ; The actor and the act ; The relatives of anger ; Motivating anger -- The nature of compassion. Defining compassion ; Compassion from an evolutionary perspective ; Animal intelligence ; Unbiased compassion ; Cultivating connectedness ; Cultivating consciousness ; The balance of wisdom and compassion ; Empathy, intelligence, and wisdom -- Global compassion. Extending the limits of compassion ; Releasing resentments ; Learning altruism ; Achieving emotional balance ; Gratitude and rejoicing ; Mental training gymnasiums -- Personal transformation. Changing the experience of emotion ; The mystery of goodness ; The path of reason.
9780805087123 0805087125
2008008848
Ekman, Paul--Interviews.
Bstan-�dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- Interviews.
Emotions.
Compassion.
BF531 / .E498 2008
152.4