The Healing Power of Empathy

Published: March 7, 2021, 10:26 p.m.

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I reach out to healer and joyful full-time mother Oana Silaghi-Bedikyan. We talk about the surprising tools she is using to cope during the pandemic, how to reframe boredom, and the unimaginable gifts we could receive as a species if we opened ourselves up. RESOURCES: BOOK: The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential Walt Whitman on Democracy and Optimism as a Mighty Form of Resistance https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07/26/walt-whitman-specimen-days-democracy/ Art and the Human Spirit: Olivia Laing on What the Lives of Great Artists Reveal About Vulnerability, Love, Loneliness, Resistance, and Our Search for Meaning https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/02/25/olivia-laing-funny-weather-art/ A Buddhist Mantra To Start Your Day With gratitude I remember the people, animals, plants, insects, creatures of the sky and sea, air and water, fire and earth, all whose joyful exertion blesses my life every day. With gratitude I remember the care and labor of a thousand generations of elders and ancestors who came before me. I offer my gratitude for the blessing of this earth I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the measure of health I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the family and friends I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the community I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the teachings and lessons I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the life I have been given. Oana on IG @oanasilaghi Angelique on IG @angelique_d_g_ Message

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