The Protestants lauded her moral example, and even the Jacobites acknowledged her compassion, and her intervention on the side of mercy for their compatriots.
And so, I recommend acknowledging with compassion for yourself that you wish you weren't sick or in pain, and then taking a realistic look at what you can and what you can't do about it.
Once we can acknowledge, with compassion, that there are these different drives within each of us -- some that are more noble, kind and inspired, and others that tend toward pettiness, selfishness, and limitation -- then we can understand the basic practice of developing spiritual intelligence.
(Participant 8: male, age range >80 years old, non-cancer diagnosis) Despite the consistently expressed belief in the right to receive clear information about their health status and prognosis, participants specified that it should be framed in a way that conveys compassion and acknowledges the distressing emotions that arise from such conversations.
A case can probably also be made that health services that recognize and cultivate person-al capabilities will treat people with the kind of compassion that acknowledges their potential to suffer in characteristically human ways including emotionally and psychologically via threats to their self and identity (Cassell 2004).
In The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, author Christopher Germer acknowledges that a Western view of self-compassion may seem "selfish or inappropriate".
When we're tempted to be harsh, critical, and judgmental with ourselves, can we instead choose to have compassion: acknowledging our suffering, noting how this makes us human and that we are not alone, and trying to be gentle or kind with ourselves (or at least refrain from beating ourselves up—"if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all")?
An award in Kean's honour, acknowledging qualities of compassion and bravery, is each year presented to a student at Kilbreda College.
It acknowledges the wrongs and then wraps them in compassion and acceptance.
It acknowledges the patient as a person, and conveys compassion.
