09-20-2016, 02:35 AM
I feel that most of us are capable of empathy. But the trouble with humans is they often live in their heads. They have so many distractions, thoughts, busy-ness in life to make money (sometimes merely to survive, not because they are greedy.) They are easily swayed by mind-numbing things such as smartphones, texting, television, etc. It seems their mind-space and their days are crammed full of all these things. Sometimes we may meet with friends, and talk and talk, yet have no mindfulness of really having connected with them, and vice-versa!
Animals don't have all this.
There is a solution! Just to find time each day to slow down, to open the Heart and let the mind be more still. It's amazing how easy that can be to do, once one gets used to the new routine. It doesn't have to involve any special meditation (though it can)....just realising we are more than all these busy things and these rushing thoughts which we are used to controlling us!
Empathy is simply 'waiting in the wings' to be allowed time to open up.
Animals don't have all this.
There is a solution! Just to find time each day to slow down, to open the Heart and let the mind be more still. It's amazing how easy that can be to do, once one gets used to the new routine. It doesn't have to involve any special meditation (though it can)....just realising we are more than all these busy things and these rushing thoughts which we are used to controlling us!
Empathy is simply 'waiting in the wings' to be allowed time to open up.
