Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

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

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

Karen Kissel Wegela
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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.
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Shambhala
Release
December 28, 2010
ISBN
1590308808
ISBN 13
9781590308806

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

Karen Kissel Wegela
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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.
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Shambhala
Release
December 28, 2010
ISBN
1590308808
ISBN 13
9781590308806

More books from Karen Kissel Wegela

Radical Compassion: Shambhala Publications Authors on the Path of Boundless Love

4/5 ( ratings)

Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships

4.2/5 ( ratings)

How to Be a Help Instead of a Nuisance: Practical Approaches to Giving Support, Service, and Encouragement to Others

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Contemplative Psychotherapy Essentials: Enriching Your Practice with Buddhist Psychology

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader