#7.07: Your Connections: " How can we create more compassionate communities?"
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“How can we create more compassionate communities?”
Season 7 Episode 7
My guest on this week’s episode of The Lifestyle First Podcast is Dr Julian Abel
Julian is a TEDx speaker with his talk, “Why Compassion Matters” and the Director of Compassionate Communities UK.
We discuss defining compassion at a contextual level and including our good qualities of being human.
We look at human brain structure – the reptilian brain, the mammalian brain and the pre-frontal cortical brain
We explore social evolution, how survival evolved from being able to help each other and the evolutionary pressure of compassion.
We look at survival of the fittest versus survival of the kindest
We talk about swimming in a sea of compassion and all the ways this is readily expressed in our daily actions.
We highlight the importance of interdependence and reciprocity.
We reflect on self esteem and nourishing relationships through childhood to the present moment
1. The one question we discuss is “How can we create more compassionate communities.”
2. The two references we look at are:
(i) My Octopus Teacher
(ii) Holt-Lunstad, J., et al. Social relationships an mortality risk – a metanalytic review. PLOS Medicine. 2010. 7(7)
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316&mod=article_inline
3. The three actions to take are
· Take time to recognise that you are already compassionate – find out where you are already swimming in the sea of compassion
· Take little steps of compassion- what have you got that you can give
· Go for the relationships.
Which of these 3 actionable lifestyle tips will you implement?
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Guest: Dr Julian Abel
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