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Cultivating Compassion

It’s a radically transforming act

In this rapidly evolving world

When you let compassion move beyond aspirations

To being an actionable practice,

For the truth is, empathy is not elusive behavior

It is a trainable trait

Every act of kindness

Thoughtful presence

In choosing compassion & care

Reshapes & rewires our neural pathways

To empathic connections.

Here is a guided meditation for cultivating compassion in thoughts words & deeds.

Take a few moments to ease in  and breathe genttly in a quiet space.

In awareness calmly sense the natural rhythm of your own breath.

Think of someone  you know who is kind and imagine the warmth that radiates from your heart towards them and extend the very same energy to someone who is challenged by it.

In every inhale, welcome peace in silence and likewise in every  exhale release the unnecessary. Inhale faith and exhale doubt.

Every positive compassion filled thought reshaped the internal narrative and the world around us.

Sense the moments integrating in empathy in compassionate connection & possibility.

Incorporating such conscious and intentional practices embodies compassion into our spheres of influence in and around us  through thoughts, words & deeds

Do share your reflections on what it means to be connected  in the world today. Let’s spark the movement towards  cultivating global compassion.


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Breathe

A few Intentional breaths

Inhale compassion
Exhale compassion.


It helps you shift the weights you carry unknowingly.

Inhale kindness
Exhale kindness


It helps make the world & you feel better.


Inhale love
Exhale love

It helps you live life lovingly.

Savvy


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What is living life lovingly?

It is not the grand gestures

But in the valuing of life

With actions that move hearts…

Through the hands that help

Extending care without expection

A celebration of life

In the unfolding of patience

In the spirit of generosity

In the deeds of kindness

In expansive love as a choice

Unconditionally unexpectedly

Living life in every now

With the grace of a being

Leading with love.

What to you is living  life lovingly?


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On Poets & poetry

A slice of life
Poets may carve with words…
Emerging from life experiences
Lived or observed.
Poets may offer fresh perspectives Embedded in words in a flow…

In Poets, empathy makes you sense and relate with compassion, It makes you feel one with another.
Yet the poet is strategic as to be a poem the verses need to be well thought as much as well felt, as words manage to touch another soul in inexplicable ways.

Every poet balances the flow uniquely…

What are your thoughts on the above?

And how can empathy connect with poetry?

©Savvy Raj


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Being kind

A beautiful  and empathic message for keeps  💕


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For love is meant to be…

The world needs universal love

Keep your stock of love unlimited

Let it flow freely without doubt

Let it be inclusive & expansive

Know it will find its path

Back to you in infinite measure

Know love  is meant to be

©Savvy Raj


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Have I?

A few questions to reflect on…

Have I made some one smile today?

Have I shared some good with all of my heart?

Have I written positive words and felt goodwill?

Have I stayed calm in my difficult moments?

Have I been a little more loving today?

Have I made me better than yesterday?

©Savvy Raj


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On Forgiveness

On Forgiveness

An action that builds bridges

Creates connections

Erases errors

And heals hearts.

©Savvy Raj

And I love this inspiration that I came across in my readings today…

Because forgiveness is like this:

A room can be dark because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. Desmond Tutu

What are your thoughts on this?


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Action Matters

A simple kind act matters more than you can imagine. Sending ripples of kindness in the very deed…

Here are few ways to do something about it today

Share a heartfelt smile 😊

Speak kindly all through the day

Give something with all of your heart without any expectation of return

Let go and forgive an issue you held in your heart.

Teach something you know very well, to someone who needs it.

Donate a book, toy to a child.

Volunteer to help,someone today out of turn.

And last but not the least, remember to be kind to your own self.

Your one gesture may start a springwell of kind acts….

Very few contemplate on kindness as in having & sharing kindness. The truth is… there is much Wisdom in Kindness.

©Savvy Raj


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Hope beyond despair

Yesterday night a quote caught my eye…

You will continue to suffer if you
have an emotional reaction to
everything that is said to you
True power is sitting back and
observing things with logic. True
power is restraint. If words
control you that means everyone
else can control you. Breathe
and allow things to pass

Warren Buffet
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Being alive

Being alive and having life
Are two different things
All have a life
Many acknowledge it
Few live it with will
But far few live it with love
Life is life after all
It’s in you
How you choose to live.
Life is for you to acknowledge
Know you have this one life
Care to live life lovingly?


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On listening

There is the power of sounds
Discovered in Silence
In meditative stillness
In contemplative introspection
In expansiveness  of understanding
In the depth of listening
There is then  the power of words
Of vision in the verses
Or expressions of the uniqueness
All mere vibrations in resonance.

Thank you for the depth of your empathic listening.

Savvy

Empathy: A Way Of Being.

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Title  ‘Empathy Matters ‘Artwork by Savvy Raj

Life with all its complexities and contrasts creates a necessity to chalk out ways to make young impressionable minds better equipped to handle its exigencies. Holistic education is so much about grounding in connectedness as much as it is about intuitive understanding that, harmony in the mind-body connection is a way of life and living.

An education in empathic behaviour becomes paramount in a materialistic world.A lot of misconception about empathy needs clarification.

Empathy is seeing with another, listening to another acknowledging them as they are, in a non-judgemental space and being with another sensing the feelings and caring to reach out with  support through words action and deeds …
Empathy can be sensed in a touch a  nod or a smile or in the simplicity of silence too  doing nothing but just being there …
Empathy is a sharing, a  feeling, a bonding, a being, a seeing, a sensing a trusting and  believing in hope, in  faith, in life and grace .

Empathy is about caring , as a way of being.Empathy is not always about bearing the suffering  and sensing another’s pain or being in a state of sorrow or pain  . There can arise great empathy when dancing together or in a classroom  environment where the teacher feels one with the students frame of mind and speaks to address that  … or  hearing or performing a song or play  together with unbridled  sense of bonding  and enthusiasm.  This empathy can be reflected time and time again in striving to consciously stay aware of the  mutually creative fulfilment it brings to our lives . Positive benefits of empathy can become a mirror to  gradually inducing greater empathic behaviour in our lives towards ourselves and others .dance-1057707__180

Our movements have the power to change our moods as much as our thoughts can bring a change in our way of being .It doesn’t matter who believes in your empathic way of life  what matters is you believe in it yourself . And that is the first step in making a positive difference.

When there is an empathy in action it is mirrored in  our own minds to create, generate loving and caring  thoughts as a response to the action .
Every empathic thought finds its way into expression thoughts words or deeds creatively. With increasing empathic thought and action there is unknowingly a connectedness valuing the interdependence in this web of life and living as a way of being.
SavvyRaj

About the Author:

Ms Savvy Raj is a  Member of the International Dance Council UNESCO the official world wide organization for all forms of dance. As a Dance Educator and Corporate Wellness Trainer she conducts workshop in Social Dances, Holistic Well Being as well as Personal Effectiveness.She is a certified adult trainer who uses the creative medium of dance towards bringing empathetic consciousness in her students. Using International Social dance forms and a variety of improvisational techniques as well as creative movement exercises she brings forth the human connect in it all. Working towards the development of an individual through dance applications and nurturing in the learners an enthusiasm to see and live life positively and empathetically.

Savvy is also certified Graphologist who pursues this as a hobby in her spare time along with a passion for writing, painting, poetry, drawing, sketching and designing.

Image Credits: ‘Empathy Matters ‘Artwork by Savvy Raj

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