Cover art for How Compassion Works
Published
Shambhala, October 2025
ISBN
9781645471738
Format
Softcover, 272 pages
Dimensions
22.9cm × 15.2cm

How Compassion Works A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Well-Being, Love, and Wisdom

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Uncover your innate capacity for love, presence, and wisdom with compassion training adapted from Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary psychology.

Uncover your innate capacity for love, presence, and wisdom with compassion training adapted from Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary psychology.

Everything we care about-our mental and physical well-being, our relationships, our spiritual life, our ability to be useful to others-depends on our ability to access love and compassion within ourselves first. This clear, step-by-step guide offers a way to cultivate this power through an evidence-based meditation method called Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT).

With practices drawn from Tibetan traditions, attachment theory, and cognitive science, How Compassion Works uses a progressive series of meditations to gradually build our capacity for mindfulness and presence-and to help us avoid empathic distress, compassion fatigue, or burnout. Organized into three categories-receptive mode, deepening mode, and inclusive mode-these practices help us cultivate unconditional care and discernment from within.

With a flexible framework that allows practitioners to integrate their own religious or spiritual beliefs, this book offers practices suitable for people of all faiths and those seeking a purely secular path.

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