Sympathy And Empathy. What is The Difference?
What is the difference between sympathy and empathy?
Let me tell you about a recent scenario and epiphany that I had in relation to this subject.
I actually have a friend that helped me have a deeper understanding of empathy and how it develops as we peel back the layers on our spiritual development journey.
I noticed that over time, the more healings that I have experienced, the more empathy I feel. The spiritual term for that is an empath. I saw it on a raw level though not long ago. My little sister has become a vegan and while I stayed at home for a few weeks in between moving – I found that I couldn’t handle watching the animals be tortured and killed for food. It was horrible and has certainly turned me off eating so much meat.
Then I was at my friends, a video came on my news feed of how poorly a young calf was being treated in a dairy farm. It actually made me tear up.
I showed her the video and she said “is that bad that it doesn’t affect me at...
What Is Spirituality
How is spirituality different to being religious? That is a question that we are often asked, and to answer as simply as possible here is a run down of what we believe to be true from our research.
Throughout the ages on earth, many religions have been created.
At certain times in history, certain religions have been released. Through studying all of the religions there have been similarities throughout all of them. Key messengers which seem to reverberate through each religion;
- Be kind to others
- There is a higher power
- Love self and others
What we found by looking at the time line of when religions were released, we can find that each one was channelled from source. As you may or may not know, with channelling, the messengers are sent via vibrations. These vibrations need to be translated through the knowledge, language and filters in our mind.
If the language and filters in which the information was coming through from source is not as advanced or some words...
How Can We Truly Love Ourselves?
Have you heard that saying, “you can’t truly love someone else until you truly love yourself?”. It’s a legitimate saying but how do we actually truly love ourselves.
It seems like a never ending process to loving ourselves. The path of healing and enlightenment can take on so many layers, so much time and effort.
How do we focus on ourselves when we are meant to be focusing on how we can help others, how to change the world positively in our own little way and work on loving ourselves deeply at the same time?
I can tell you the answer – but don’t expect some magical instant gratification secret or some secret pill formulation. You can get a taste of it with substances but this is fake and short lived.
You need to be able to go deep within. Under all the layers of anger, of fear and frustration. Even deeper then what you are consciously aware of and could image. Right into the subconscious, the cellular memory and soul memory.
It will be...
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