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Girl Gives Away Her Wish

3/31/2016

 
A young girl's life changed forever when she was diagnosed with an enlarged heart and needed a transplant to survive. She got her new heart and, with a mere wish, she has now touched the hearts of an entire town in Haiti. Click on the video to watch the story.

Happy Students: The Need for Empathy and Gratitude

3/27/2016

 
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Empathy is first and foremost an internal quality. It is an attitude of loving, caring, and oneness with the participants in your life. In order to have true empathy, whatever is important to another person in your life must be equally important to you. Read more here ...

Starbucks to Donate 100% of Unsold Food Items

3/24/2016

 
Starbucks plans to doante 100% of its unsold food, still safe to eat, from its 7,600 US stores. Through partnerships with Food Donation Connection and the nonprofit Feeding America, perishable food will be picked up from Starbucks stores each day in refrigerated vans and redistributed to food banks. Click on the video (left) to learn more.

When Compassion Defeats Cruelty

3/24/2016

 
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"Thousands of people driving many miles to rescue animals in need is not simply a community looking to help; it’s a community connecting their humane values to the enormous value of animals, and committing to saving their lives." Read more here ...

Diver Saves Sea Turtle

3/23/2016

 
Divers off the coast of Mexico saved a sea turtle that likely had been entangled in rope for many months. Colin Sutton & Cameron Dietrich freed the turtle and used a GoPro camera to record the rescue. The turtle, once freed, started to swim away, using only his healthy flipper, but then turned around to come back and say thanks. Click on the video (left) to watch.

Raising Compassionate Children

3/22/2016

 
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The major problem in trying to teach altruism or compassion is that you can’t reward those actions or you encourage selfishness. In other words, if you always reward a child for being kind to others, you are implicitly teaching them that they do nice things in order to get something in return. But what techniques can you use other than the reward-and-punishment method? Read on to find out ...

Stanford Scientist Proves Compassion Leads to Success

3/20/2016

 
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"Compassion and happiness are bound together. Being good to yourself—allowing yourself to have some rest time, for example—increases happiness. Being compassionate to others increases loyalty and commitment among colleagues and employees and creates a happier work environment. . . . The best kept secret to happiness is to be of service to others." Read on ...

40 Ways to Let Go and Feel Less Pain

3/19/2016

 
“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.” ~Ajahn Chah
When we allow the past to shape our present, worry about the future, or cling to regret, stress, or anxiety, we deny ourselves peace, both emotionally and physically. But if we can let go, even just a little, we create room for peace to enter. Read on to learn more ... 

Five Ways to Increase Your Own Empathy

3/16/2016

 
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Empathy is the most important skill in relationship building, but it's also the one that most of us need to work on. Although infancy is a critical time for us to learn empathy, we can nevertheless increase it throughout our lifetimes. And despite self-interest ruling today's me-oriented culture, we have the capacity to empathize anytime we choose to. Read on to learn five ways to increase your own empathy ...

A Little Empathy Goes A Long Way

3/14/2016

 
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Empathy is not the same as sympathy, which refers to feeling sorry for someone else based on their situation. With empathy, we are viewing a person from the inside as an equal, while sympathy means we are viewing them from the outside as a superior. Learn how empathy and its vital companion, active listening, can help us build stronger, more positive relationships. Read more here ...

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    Jo Stepaniak, MSEd, is the author of numerous books on vegan cuisine and compassionate living. 

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