S2 Ep 74: Growing Compassion in Yourself and Your Family

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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It's important to understand the difference between compassion and empathy — Join me today in a solo episode about the science behind compassion, imagining another person's feelings, and a concrete mindfulness exercise that will help you and your children practice the compassion that builds better communities.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.3	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today I want to have a conversation
0:13.2	with you just the two of us about compassion, cultivating compassion in your family and in the
0:23.1	larger world. And first I'm going to talk about the science of compassion and then I'm going to
0:27.6	give you some concrete mindfulness tools so that you can grow that muscle every day, every week,
0:36.5	whenever you feel inspired. If you enjoy this episode, please write a review in Apple Podcasts
0:44.8	and give a five star rating. It helps me so much, helps get the word out and helps more people
0:50.8	have access to this content. Let me start by saying that compassion helps us understand
0:58.8	how to relate. In particular, it helps us understand how to relate to our children and when
1:03.7	we're in relationships, we are less reactive. We're more responsive. And that reactivity is often
1:12.1	the thing that happens that we regret in our interactions. So when you apply compassion,
1:19.3	for example, to discipline, you're protecting the closeness of your relationship and you're
1:25.5	coming at the discipline from that place of teaching, guiding, understanding, and supporting.
1:33.6	And that's going to give you the more long-term success, I say in quotes. And it has a huge impact
1:39.3	on not only your child's well-being, but your well-being, your partner's well-being and not to get
1:45.2	to woo-woo on you, but really our planet, our entire community, and larger worlds, benefits.
1:54.0	So first, I'm going to talk about the science of compassion because that's the approach that I
1:58.2	take. And then I'm going to get into the practical tools which are rooted in science, but they're
2:04.7	also rooted in mindfulness and meditation. So pick whichever lane you feel most comfortable. It all
2:12.8	is part of the same message, which is compassion is a huge part of our capacity to relate
2:19.7	in the world and to survive and thrive. There's also a little bit of a misunderstanding about compassion
2:25.7	that it's the same thing as empathy. So first, I guess I should back up and say that when we encounter
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