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Topic: Compersion

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	How to Save the World
		The key to compersion is to learn not to feel any of these negative emotions, and instead to feel delight in the pleasure your lover finds in others that enlarges his/her happiness and frees you from the expectation that you must be all things to him/her.
		Males seem to have more of a problem with compersion than females, especially when the circle is small and open.
		The rediscovery of compersion as natural human behaviour may therefore be the way home, to the place we have always belonged, and the essential way of living we have tragically forgotten..
	blogs.salon.com /0002007 (2691 words)

	Planet Waves \| A Crazy Little Thing Called... \| By Eric Francis
		Compersion begins the first time we are turned on by someone else's pleasure, or the idea of someone else's love for anyone besides us.
		Compersion is an idea that emerged from something called the "polyamorous" culture, a segment of society in which people openly choose to have more than one committed lover.
		The movement from jealousy to compersion is one of the most direct spiritual paths there is, because we are learning so much of what spiritual programs attempt to teach: unconditional love, surrender, forgiveness, freedom, safety, and, most important, loving the way Spirit loves us: equally with everyone else.
	www.planetwaves.net /compersion.html (1851 words)

	Polyamorous Percolations
		Compersion begins the first time we are turned on by someone else's pleasure, or the idea of someone else's love for anyone besides us.
		So one thing you can count on, if you are in a situation where you need to teach another person compersion, is that they may relate to the fact that it's better to be alive than dead.
		Compersion is an idea that emerged from something called the "polyamorous" culture, a segment of society in which people openly choose to have more than one committed lover.
	www.polyamoryonline.org /articles/compersion.html (1906 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Compersion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Compersion is love manifested when a person takes joy in his or her partner's happiness with another person.
		Compersion begins the first time we are turned on by someone else's pleasure, or the idea of someone else's love for anyone besides us.
		Compersion is an idea that emerged from something called the "polyamorous" culture, a segment of society in which people openly choose to have more than one committed lover.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Compersion (351 words)

	Compersion - ConsideringMarriage.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Compersion is a term used by practitioners of polyamory to describe the experience of taking pleasure when one's partner is with another person.
		The Polyamory society defines compersion to be "the feeling of taking joy in the joy that others you love share among themselves, especially taking joy in the knowledge that your beloveds are expressing their love for one another."
		The adjective frubbly and the noun frubbles are sometimes used, in the poly community in the United Kingdom and the United States, to describe the feeling of compersion.
	www.consideringmarriage.com /Compersion/encyclopedia.htm?showall=yes (541 words)

	Compersion at AllExperts
		Compersion is love manifested when a person takes joy in his or her loved one's happiness with another person.
		It is a form of empathy; that is, pleasure that a loved one is experiencing a good thing in his or her life.
		Feeling compersion for the first time is sometimes described as frightening and disorienting because it runs contrary to the jealousy most cultures believe one is likely to feel in such circumstances.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/co/compersion.htm (219 words)

	♥♥♥ www.polyamory.nl :: Bekijk onderwerp - Polyamory op wikipedia
		Compersion, weer een woord die ik kan gebruiken om een van mijn eigenschappen proberen uit te leggen aan anderen.
		Maar niemand zal dat woord begrijpen en anti-jaloezie is het zeker niet.
		Compersion slaat op het hevige geluksgevoel, dat je zelf ervaart, wanneer je ziet dat jouw partner zich gelukkig voelt met een andere partner.
	www.polyamory.nl /forum/viewtopic.php?p=11832 (1017 words)

	Fourth Branch of America - Polyamory, The Next Sexual Revolution?
		Polyamory is about being involved with a tight circle of individuals with no one person having a sexual relationship outside that group commitment.
		Jealousy and ownership is less likely, and polyamorists” even have a word for the opposite feeling they experience, called “compersion”.
		Compersion is the feeling of joy and happiness for your partners expressing love with one another.
	www.fourthbranchofamerica.com /polyamory.shtml (313 words)

	Compersion, the case for.
		Jealousy is the experience of overwhelming insecurity, and compersion is simply the opposite.
		It is possible to transform jealousy into compersion.
		My own style of undoing jealousy and experiencing compersion is based upon a respect for autonomy.
	www.btinternet.com /~rideflame/compersion/three.html (1424 words)

	LoveMore.com - Main Page
		We have issues both past and present that cover all different styles and logistics of polyamorous relating for the person new to or exploring polyamory for the first time to long term polyamorous person.
		There is information on families, parenting, sexuality, dealing with jealousy, finding compersion and much more.
		Retreats — We have been facilitating polyamorous conferences and retreats since 1986 and are the longest running polyamorous conferences in the world.
	www.lovemore.com (448 words)

	Sustainable Love and Life - Compersion Over Jealousy
		Our media and ourselves have far too long perpetuated jealousy as something that is "cute" or "natural" or a sign of being "in love." Jealousy arises from fear, which can not co-exist with love.
		To grow away from something, it is helpful to know that it has an opposite.
		Compersion means that instead of being threatened by someone you love loving another, you take pleasure in it.
	ropi.net /s/compersion.html (108 words)

	Julian Cope presents Head Heritage \| U-Know! \| Features \| A Crazy Little Thing Called......
		And it's that control that we are called upon to give up when we embrace compersion.
		We need to learn compersion for others - to feel and express the love that loves them for who they are.
		One thing you can count on, if you are in a situation where you need to teach another person compersion, is that they may relate to the fact that it's better to be alive than dead.
	www.headheritage.co.uk /uknow/features/index.php?id=16 (1534 words)

	Compersion - Polyamory - tribe.net
		On the other hand, I did experience compersion on multiple occasions and it is the most fabulous joy that comes from this life choice.
		I move in and out of compersion, but that is one of the main reason I am poly: it makes me happy to see my loved ones happy.
		I think compersion is my favorite emotion of all, right up there with inspiration, as when I'm composing a tune or writing a play.
	polyamory.tribe.net /thread/05e2a683-5d91-415d-9713-39c4bad367d7 (2900 words)

	The wierdness of "we" - Polyamory - tribe.net
		I am finding, though that 'compersion' as I understand it, comes much more naturally to him than it does to me - it's probably always been so but never really so apparent as it is now.
		He's found a new love interest that has intensified very quickly, which is in itself a new adventure for us because usually I've been the one getting all the attention and it's usually been on a more casual level.
		My future husband and I have a similar mindsets and that makes "we" a bit easier to aclimate than it could be, but finding out what you are really willing to compromise on and what's set in stone is a process.
	polyamory.tribe.net /thread/9845503f-b0d8-43bc-acdf-2e9d5877ba2d (2199 words)

	Planet Waves \| Journey to the Heart of Scorpio by Eric Francis \| Page 22
		Most people have not heard the word compersion, unless you read Planet Waves or have stumbled across the Compersion web site (one of my hibernating sites, about to be re-opened shortly).
		Compersion is this same feeling, but carried into the world of loving relationships between equals.
		One form that compersion can take is appreciating and enjoying the fact that someone is feeling your partner's heat or seeing their beauty.
	www.ericfrancis.com /scorpio/scorpio22.html (1618 words)

	Control Tower \| Control Tower & Kink Calendar \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		One popular topic among the 130 attendees was polyamorous relationships, and presenter Leanna Wolfe discussed a concept I find essential to a successful polyamory: compersion.
		In day-to-day poly life, that means when your partner has sex with someone else, instead of being jealous, you're pleased for the person.
		I know poly isn't for everyone, but compersion is a concept worth examining, if only because life is too full of interesting choices to ever just blindly accept the default position.
	thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=16092 (492 words)

	Houston - News - Meet Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Jones - houstonpress.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The trick is to be inclusive, not exclusive, he argues in a singsong teacher's kind of voice.
		He uses the word "compersion," coined by his older wife, Morning Glory, the same woman who came up with the word polyamory in the first place.
		Compersion is the feeling he gets when he sees his wife Wynter in love with other people he loves.
	www.houstonpress.com /issues/2000-11-30/feature_5.html (1251 words)

	New Book Dares To Ask: Can Jealousy Be a Path to Unconditional Love?
		Deborah Anapol, author of The Seven Natural Laws of Love, will be releasing her new eBook, Compersion: Using Jealousy as a Path to Unconditional Love on Valentine's Day, February 14th and sharing her latest work at a weekend workshop in Georgia this March.
		Her new eBook, Compersion: Using Jealousy as a Path to Unconditional Love, offers a series of brief, inspirational thoughts on how to transcend jealousy.
		Deborah Anapol, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, is the author of Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits; The Seven Natural Laws of Love (http://www.sevenlawsoflove.com) and Compersion: Using Jealousy as a Path to Unconditional Love.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2007/1/prweb500879.htm (623 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We welcome those who are new to this realm of experience, and hope that you will find guidance and advice in the company of others.
		"Compersion n : the feeling of taking joy in the joy that others you love share among themselves, especially taking joy in the knowledge that your beloveds are expressing t heir love for one another, the term was coined by the Keristan Commune in San Francisco which practiced Polyfidelity, Kerista disbanded in the early 1990s."
		Compersion is an acceptance that those you love can love others, and it makes you happy to be part of that.
	www.zensur.freerk.com /nada/index.php?bw=true&linkfollow=uggc%3A%2F%2Fpbzzhavgl.yvirwbheany.pbz%2Fpbzcrefvba%2Fcebsvyr%3Fzbqr%3Dshyy%27 (728 words)

	Compersion v. focus on self
		Nope...I meant compersion (basically finding joy in the joy your love finds in loving another or something along those lines).
		compersion (basically finding joy in the joy your love finds in loving another or something along those lines).
		If you want to limit the definition of compersion as feeling love and happiness when an intimate partner finds happiness and love with another INTIMATE PARTNER, I would accept that as being something that doesn't happen in monogamous relationship.
	www.collarchat.com /fb.asp?go=next&m=67515&viewType=tm (1293 words)

	World Polyamory Association Articles: Incompatible Poly Worldviews by Kelly
		Compersion – unlimited opportunity for sexual relationships with extramarital partners.
		We can also set these worldviews on a continuum in terms of circumstances that give rise to jealousy and emotional pain.
		Since heterosexuality is the only socially sanctioned orientation, people often do not have sufficient opportunity to explore their sexual orientation until
	www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com /articles/IcompatiblePolyWorldviews.html (1227 words)

	Interacting Arts \| View topic - Compersion
		I can imagine that it is close to the euphoria described by psychologists when therapy is successful- intense happiness on the behalf of another, but there are of course more variables involved in a client-therapist relationship.
		I find compersion to be a very radical and useful thing to work towards.
		The problem in my case is that I'm too unsure about my own worth, that I've up til recently lived a lot through the confirmation of others.
	www.interactingarts.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1095 (882 words)

	South Bay Poly Essay #96 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Well, but compersion sounds nice anyway (after you get used to it).
		Compersion: Feeling happy seeing your partner happy, even or especially when they're with another person they care about.
		It's true: I was a little lonely, because they were together the entire weekend, while I only got an occasional "Hello" when we passed in the hallway.
	members.aol.com /wabaldwin/sbp1102.html (306 words)

	Skywind's Lighthouse - Myself and Polyamory
		There is a very deep trust to knowing that our relationship is primary, and long-term, and that others may come and go, but ours will be worked on first if there is a need.
		One of the sexiest, most attractive things I've ever seen is my love flirting with someone he cares about.
		It can be even nicer with another established couple, if they are interested in emotional closeness as well, because there's just that much more love and cuteness to go around.
	www.tadma.net /~jenny/googlecached/sky_myself_poly.html (1055 words)

	Amazon.com: Compersion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Psychology and the author of Compersion: Using jealousy as a Path...
		It was the compersion effect, as I learned later...
		and replaced it with "compersion," their term for the emotion...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Compersion&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (846 words)

	Bisexual.org, the official web site of the Bisexual Foundation
		The idea of compersion, which is the full embrace of another person's pleasure, is explained in the context of witnessed masturbation experiences.
		The narrative focuses on the process of transformation that made their relationship possible, and on how the intimacy and strength of this triadic relationship make the project of the movie not only possible but highly successful.
		The narrative explores political and personal themes related to polyamory and bisexuality, as well as theories thereof, and the complex balance in a bi and poly triad whose members are part of the Southern California independent film industry.
	www.bisexual.org /en/journal/journal4-34.php (2159 words)

	JERRY RIGGIN??? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		So that makes my compersion ratio a bit high.
		So is it possible to use some thick a$$ gaskets to make the compersion ratios to drop???????
		So by switching my heads it boosts the compersion ratio up.
	www.mustangforums.com /archive/thread207065-1.html (425 words)

	[No title]
		You can move through uncomfortable feelings of jealousy to an inner place of unconditional love, where you welcome your wife loving another with empathy (compersion), the opposite of jealousy.
		When you operate from compersion, you experience happiness when you see your wife loving others.
		Ask us how you can make more love in your life, relate from your highest self with your lovers and housemates, uplevel jealousy into compersion (joy at your lovers' joy), and give them each the attention, companionship, touch and sexual-loving they need.
	schooloftantra.org /articles/Polyamory/PolyAdvisors/Wife_Attracted_to_Another_Man.htm (632 words)

	World Polyamory Association - Home
		It is the acceptance that those you love can love others and the capacity to experience pleasure, and even joy and turn-on, when this occurs.
		Tantra is a spiritual path that is conducive to compersion and which, if truly lived, flows seamlessly into Polyamory.
		Then, in twos, fours and small groups, we will move into compersion, Tantra and Poly in a dance that may be playful or soulful, mental or sensual, and that will either stretch boundaries or provide the opportunity to stretch into already extended boundaries with a variety of individuals or couples.
	www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com /conferences/Archives/LagunaBeach2004/laguna_beach_presentations.html (2028 words)

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