Mindful Compassion: How the Science of Compassion Can Help You Understand Your Emotions, Live in the Present, and Connect Deeply With Others by Paul Gilbert and Choden

364 Pages
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Inc
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Nonfiction, Health, Mind, Body, Spirit, Self-Help, Self-Improvement

The book is divided into the following sections.

Part 1: The Issues Waking Up and the Four Noble Trues
Part 2: Evolved Mind and Motivations: Understanding Our Origins – The Flow of Life
Part 3: Emotional Systems
Part 4: Emergence of Compassion
Part 5: The Challenge of Mindfulness Practice
Part 6: The Lotus in the Mud
The Practices
Part 7: Mindfulness Practice
Part 8: Working with Acceptance
Part 9: Building Compassionate Capacity
Part 10: The Compassionate Self
Part 11: Widening Our Circle of Compassion
Conclusion: The Compassionate Journey

The two authors are so different they each bring a different perspective to the topic of compassion. One has a degree in economics but became a rained clinical psychologist and the other was a lawyer but left his career and moved to a monastery. This book is amazing and takes the reader into the world of unconditional love and compassion. I am now looking at my life differently. I want to be better and kinder after reading this book. It made me realize that not only should we have compassion for others, but we should have compassion for ourselves. I read this book twice and can see myself reading it over again. If you want to delve deeper into mindful compassion, this is an excellent book.