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 .

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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