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827th Week: Cultivating Empathy, Along with Kindness
I often write about the importance of kindness. An essential companion to that practice is cultivating empathy. A definition of empathy found on google says: “Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. … “ I would add to this definition, “…and the ability to imagine what any other living being might be thinking or feeling…”
Because I have focused on cultivating a deepened awareness of heart perception in recent years, on the quality of intelligence that naturally arises when orienting to the heart brain, I find that it hurts my heart when I notice the increasing lack of expressions of empathy in public and social spheres of my American culture. And, this lack of empathy is not only focused on a wide array of our human kin. It also applies to many, if not most, of our other earth-kin. What often saddens me is how a lack of empathy leads to a lack of kindness, as well.
For this week’s practice, I invite you to pay more attention to your relationship with empathy. One way to do this is to ask your heart brain, rather than your head brain, what someone else might be feeling or experiencing. I find that heart intelligence has a different take on, or brings different qualities to, most experiences. In this week’s practice, notice what happens if you take the time to ask your heart what it has to say about someone else’s experience.
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2025 May Meditation
This month, we focus on bringing into your awareness the quality, the frequency of kindness in order to offer kindness to your whole body-mind being—to the community that is your body, then your emotions, then your mental activity and spiritual life. Then, the meditation invites you to radiate the frequency of kindness out into the environment around you and on out into your world. Then, the meditation invites you to imagine going through your day resonating with the frequency of kindness.
If you’d prefer to do this meditation with images of nature, here’s the YouTube version:
2021 December Audio Meditation
This month’s meditation on wholeness ends the year with touching into the fact that every living thing on the planet emits its own unique tone and quality of wholeness and that these individual contributions offer themselves to the brilliant light radiating from the wholeness of our precious earth.
If you’d like to see images with your meditation, the YouTube version is below the audio…
2025 March Meditation
This month, we settle into timeless stillness and then shift our awareness to the love that naturally radiates from our heart space. Remember that this love is an infinite universal energy and there is always more to fill your heart. In this meditation, we radiate love to our whole body-mind being, then out into the environment, and on into the world. Notice the quality of being that arises when focused on resonating with and radiating love.
Here is the audio version of the meditation.
If you would prefer to use the YouTube version with images of nature, here’s the link:
2023 November Meditation
Returning to what we explored earlier this year, notice any change in your experience over this time of recognizing the living presence of relationships, collaborative communities, that are everywhere in your life and that your radiating presence touches everyone and everything you encounter along the way. This meditation invites you to expand the everyday relationships you have with the world around you, acknowledging the inevitability of relatedness, of community every time you go in or out of a store, a park, any kind of community gathering place.
Below is the audio version and, below that, is the YouTube version with images of nature that accompany the meditation…