When you hurt, I hurt. At the heart of love lies empathy—and the relatable compassion one is able to feel for another living being is one of the strongest evolutionary traits.
To put yourself completely in someone else’s circumstances is a gift that reveals other perspectives and experiences. It’s easy to do this when watching a movie and hearing a narrator’s explanation or following the storyline through a main character’s perspective. It is far more difficult to do it for other people—and even harder to do it with someone you are battling or someone who’s cultural background and viewpoints are completely different than your own.
Take a moment to pause and consider the other. Doing this as a regular practice will increase your emotional intelligence and your overall capacity to love.
Inspiration for the Day: “I do not ask how the wounded person feels, I myself become the wounded person.” –Walt Whitman
Note: This is an ongoing series to help provide support during these challenging times. These daily readings are part of an overall book on balance, which includes 12 essentials for maintaining balance to support resilience and your best self. The 12 essentials include mind, body, love, service, self, family, intimacy, purpose, environment/living space, nature, social relations, and spirit. This series is sharing 30 days of lessons about love. It will examine multiple aspects of love and provide knowledge and inspiration for hearts to heal and love to flow. It is designed as a daily reader to allow time to reflect, process and incorporate.
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