BK Talk 1st Feb

Brahma Kumaris
1st February
Compassion and Empathy

Some points

• Compassion fatigue arises when we focus my energy entirely on other people, but not ourself, this is disfunctional.
• We should strive for the ability to relate to difference people at their levels, no matter whether they are rich or poor, it is helpful to relate to, at times, relate to other people in terms of how we have labelled them.
• There is an element to do with left brain, right brain thinking, where the left brain is predominantly to do with logics, it likes to evaluate, whereas the right brain has to do with emotion/feeling, from which we can tap into or connect with our intuition. Intuition rather analytical thinking is a strong basis for compassion and empathy.
• A very helpful question to ask when we face problem is "Can we identify the root cause?". We should let our conscience be guide, we should develop towards ourselves as well as other beings. If we solely focus on others, we may burn ourself out, this is clearly disfunctional. A very common saying, "To help others, we need to help ourselves elaborates this point quite well.
  
• There are at least 2 levels of giving
  
• Level 1: actions, material aids or supports.
  
• Level 2: vibrations in terms of what our brains send out to the universe, feelings and thoughts, etc.
• From a spiritual perpective, we should decouple the self from circumstances. A helpful affirmation for this would be "My original nature is a peaceful, loving one". A quote that I really like is "I am not a human being having a spiritual experience, I am a spiritual being having a human experience", I always find this quote very inspiring, and recalling this phrase seems to help me connect with my Source and Energy.
  
• to be continued.
  

BH