The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is attempting to provide solutions.
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For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender identities.
Mindfulness, being in the present moment, is often achieved through meditation, the practice of sitting still and focusing on the breath. Both help relieve feelings of anxiety and depression
‘Compassion fatigue’ may act as a coping mechanism to being exposed to the suffering of others.
Compassionate listening is an overlooked practice, but urgently needed in both interpersonal and political communications.
When managers are more positive, companies and their workers benefit.
It’s important that employers and employees understand sympathy, empathy and compassion, and consider these emotions’ roles in both job performance and employee relations.
Buddhists believe that bodhisattvas reside in heavenly realms but can also appear on Earth disguised as humans, animals or other types of beings.
An anthropologist explains how years of conflict have made Ukrainians reassess their priorities and relationships.
The transition to a new school year will be an important time for students to focus on strategies for fostering positive mental health and well-being, and recognizing signs that help may be needed.
Accessing compassionate health care is often difficult for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other sexual identities, such as pansexual or asexual individuals (2SLGBTQ+).
Here are three steps for overcoming the distress caused by a surfeit of empathy.
A scholar studying the relationship of Buddhism and medicine explains how the popular media has misrepresented mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings, which earned him a global following, gave simple instructions on mindfulness and emphasized how it could be practiced anytime, even when doing routine chores.
Parenting means internal competition between three evolved responses: the threat, drive and soothing system. The threat light is on often, but it can be dampened by tapping into the soothing system.
It’s time to make caring doctors the norm, not the exception.
How to manage the stress of polarization and how to function when it surrounds us is now a necessary but underdeveloped skill for many of us.
On World Kindness Day, a scholar of Buddhist studies explains its idea of compassion and the diverse ways to think about and express kindness.
The findings suggest adults feel more prosocial with children around – even if they don’t have any themselves.
Death-friendly communities that welcome mortality might help us live better lives and provide better care for people at the end of their lives.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College
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