Feeling Empathy When Someone Else Is Suffering “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you’re not alone.” — Brene Brown It seems compassion and kindness are a virtue not practised as frequently as it was in years past. Times are tough with the impact of the …
“Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.” – Saint Francis de Sales I often hear people say that they are extremely stressed about so many things in life. These things include work, money, children, lack of free time, etc. We live in a …
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour.” Henry David Thoreau Defining Consciousness In my last blog post titled How Emotions Affect Your Health, I discussed how negative emotions have the potential to cause disease or create health within the body. I …
“Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.” – H. Stanley Judd Why are people scared of failure? Where in our personal history did we subscribe to the …
“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson What emotions surface when you read the headline of this article? Are you aware of any resistance? You are perfect the way you are since that …
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Molière While I’m not suggesting I am bereft of problems, the more I nourished and tended to my inner landscape; the easier my passage through life became. So how does one arrive at this point? How can you allow the beauty and majesty of …
