Write a reflection on envisioning oneself for compassion
Topic: Envisioning Training Oneself for Compassion
How might specific elements of the Dalai Lama’s advice for dealing with destructive emotions be applicable in your life and work? How could applying this advice impact your efforts to be helpful, compassionate, and ethical on a day-to-day basis, as well as over a long career spanning decades? What are the potential consequences of allowing destructive emotions to proliferate and predominate in your experience?
Of the key inner values that the Dalai Lama describes in chapter 10, which two or three of them would be the most beneficial for healthcare providers? What types of stressors require the strength and freedom that these inner values bestow?
Of the formal mental training practices described in this book (see chapter 11 section on “formal practices” pp. 166-177), which would be the most beneficial to you personally at this point in your life? If you were to enact that practice today, how would you go about it? What steps and procedures are involved and how would you adapt them to your own needs? What specific intentions, visualizations, feelings, or examples would you incorporate?
