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Emotional awareness : overcoming the obstacles to psychological balance and compassion : a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman
- Title
- Emotional awareness : overcoming the obstacles to psychological balance and compassion : a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman / edited by Paul Ekman ; [foreword by Daniel Goleman].
- Publication
- New York : Times Books, 2008.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ekman, Paul.
- Description
- xxiv, 261 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Daniel Goleman -- Introduction / by Paul Ekman -- East and West. Two traditions ; Science, religion, and truth ; The filter of moods ; When emotions are destructive ; Attachment and control ; The poverty of emotional language -- Experiencing emotion. What are emotions? ; Obstacles to constructive emotional experiences ; Calming difficult people ; Mindfulness ; The refractory period ; Emotional scripts -- Emotional balance. Meditative practice ; How high the bar ; The startle and the buffer ; Forgiveness and responsibility -- Anger, resentment, and hatred. Preparing for anger ; Expressing anger ; The varieties of anger ; The actor and the act ; The relatives of anger ; Motivating anger -- The nature of compassion. Defining compassion ; Compassion from an evolutionary perspective ; Animal intelligence ; Unbiased compassion ; Cultivating connectedness ; Cultivating consciousness ; The balance of wisdom and compassion ; Empathy, intelligence, and wisdom -- Global compassion. Extending the limits of compassion ; Releasing resentments ; Learning altruism ; Achieving emotional balance ; Gratitude and rejoicing ; Mental training gymnasiums -- Personal transformation. Changing the experience of emotion ; The mystery of goodness ; The path of reason.
- Call Number
- *OZ 08-7466
- ISBN
- 0805087125
- 9780805087123
- LCCN
- 2008008848
- OCLC
- 213358057
- Title
- Emotional awareness : overcoming the obstacles to psychological balance and compassion : a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman / edited by Paul Ekman ; [foreword by Daniel Goleman].
- Imprint
- New York : Times Books, 2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Ekman, Paul.
- Research Call Number
- *OZ 08-7466