Do you live open heartedly? Or are you guarding it under lock and key? Many of us have had experiences that led us to close our hearts. But if we were to open our hearts, it would enhance our capacity to: love and be loved, empathise and heal, learn more and be more. Can we […]
The Art of Communicating Effectively
It’s in these periods of crisis and change that communication is needed more than ever.
Empathy & Compassion: Suffering
A question: With so much having been done and being done to alleviate suffering in the world why is suffering still with us? Are we missing something? Why are even the rich and famous who have it ‘all’ often falling into great distress, too? An answer: Take the example of curing a disease; if we […]
Empathy & Compassion: Compassion
Compassion is the desire or feeling to help to alleviate the suffering of others, to make a positive difference to their lives. It is not necessary to empathize in order to be compassionate, it is rather that we see others’ suffering and are moved to act to alleviate it through our thoughts, words or actions […]
Empathy & Compassion: Empathy
Empathy is the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. Usually we equate this to empathizing with anothers challenging or sorrowful experiences. Equally though it can mean to empathize with their positive experiences. Can you have empathy whilst still feeling totally secure and loving for example? Today many problems are the result of an […]