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Here is one of the weekly communication skills tips from World Empathy Day. You can receive these free weekly tips by signing up at www.empathyday.com
Dear World Empathy Day Participants:http://www.walkyourtalk.org/
Celebrate World Empathy Day on Wednesday, a day of increased consciousness for understanding, creativity, harmony, and contribution for others and yourself. This is a weekly tip to help you move into this consciousness during the week.
Empathy Tip #105 – Give Me Some Space!
My computer was moaning and groaning this week, the fan whizzing faster and faster with each program that I was using. It was laboring and sounded in so much pain. I performed several features to help it run smoothly, yet I could hear it continue to run noisy and in agony. I was worried too, was this the end of my hard drive?
THEN, I noticed how close to the wall the air vents were located. It was not receiving any air to cool itself. I moved it away to give it some space for the air to circulate and now it is running smooth and in a sense “happy”
This Weeks tip is the same. Move away from your walls that may have a strangle hold on nurturing yourself and give yourself the space to breath, to create, for stimulation.
Example:
I focus so much on my work I may not move for hours at my desk, yet I know how beneficial it is to move around to keep me calm, creative and at ease, Now I set my watch to beep every 45 minutes to remind me to create my space, an openness for nurturance.
I have different strategies to instill “opening the space” such as walk around the block, breathing exercises and stretching, or even eating, offering myself empathy. I find a strategy to nurture and take care of myself even for a few minutes.
I come back refreshed and sometimes with a solution to a challenge.
This can work before communicating with another for ease and connection
For this week:
Find yourself a few strategies to meet your need for nurturance, to create more space in your life. Set a time factor for this strategy such as hourly, every 2 hours, daily, etc. Whatever works for you.
As always, I enjoy your communications how this tip may have worked for you.
May you find ways to meet all your needs this week.
Rick Goodfriend
Founder – World Empathy Day
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