You too can help:
The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention. Daniel Coleman
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On these dates our Holistic practitioner and Energy healing groups as well as friends and others are taking 20 minutes in their homes to help Haiti.
Jan 25th, 26th, 27th 2010 from 7pm to 7.20pm
Here is a copy of the email I sent: Feel free to tell others.
I'm organizing a sending of healing energy to Haiti the next 3 evenings.Many people have already helped in many different ways, but now is also a good time as they move from rescue to recovery and we know that there are possibly still a few alive in the rubble. There are also families who held out hope that their loved one would be pulled out and maybe only now are having to come to terms with that not happening. There are also still thousands in shock, grieving or hurt as you know.
So for tonight Monday, tomorrow night Tuesday and Wednesday night from 7.00 to 7.20pm let's as many of us that can... please take 20 min (or whatever time you can) to sit and do whatever it is that you do with Haiti in mind...send healing energy, send love, visualize healing, pray, meditate, sing, whatever you can do to send that loving and healing to Haiti. Light a candle perhaps, or if you're on the go at that time, just remember and connect with us. If you're in a meeting and it's appropriate... ask if they can take a few minutes of silence. Tell others. It will probably be 10pm in Haiti at that time, but I think anytime right now to send energy is fine.
Of course you're welcome to continue on after the 3 days.
Thanks
Love
MItta
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Daniel Coleman: The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Albert Einstein: A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
