One Instance of Compassion Changes the World

This past Sunday, Dr. Heather shared the video below....

Being a dog lover, I was so moved by it and went home to Google it and show my sons.  I was pleased to find that Eldad videos many of his rescues and airs them on YouTube to raise awareness.

My immediate reaction was, "I want to do that and change the world!"

When I  got out of my head and really thought from the heart, I realized my connection with Eldad wasn't wanting to save dogs, but compassion.

I show compassion in many other ways every single day.  

I show it to my boys, my husband, I show it to my clients in business, I show it to my friends.  

What I viewed as an amazing show of compassion from Eldad Hager was nothing more spectacular than what each of us does every given day...he simply videos it.

My desire to change the world like I immediately thought Eldad was is happening.  For me, I change women's lives...one person at a time.

I tell my boys everyday to make someone smile today...they change one person's life each day.

My dog, Lucy gives me such an overwhelming show of love everyday as she follows me all over the house, then rests her head on my chest every night...she changes my life every day.

The realization of how I change lives everyday just as Eldad does, has had a deep impact on me this week.    I am more aware of it when I do it. 

Don't ever underestimate the power YOU have to change the world.

It doesn't have to be in large, worldwide movements.  

Changing the world means affecting someone's life each day in a positive way...i.e. making them smile, buying a stranger a coffee, helping someone with their groceries.

When we do this, we not only affect that person for a moment, we show them compassion and it naturally encourages them to do the same.

So, I ask you...what can you do, today, to change the world?

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2012 CSLCV Annual Retreat

On Saturday, March 10, 2012, I attended my second annual retreat at the Center for Spiritual Living - Capistrano Valley.

I made my decision based on my previous year's experience, one that transformed my thinking, but also, being new to the center in 2011, I was surrounded by people who truly had my highest good at heart.

It was a feeling I hadn't felt before and one that I needed at that point of my life.  I left the 2011 retreat a new person and reveled in the thought that once one uplevels Spiritually, they never go back to the "old" level, which had not produced the greatest results in my own personal life. 

As I walked into the 2012 retreat themed:  Waves of Awakening - On Sacred Shores I expected a lot.  I expected much of the same results as I had the prior year.

Dr. Maxine Kaye delivered intense, yet humorous exercises and dialogue that allowed us to deeply understand that everything in life is "sacred, but not serious."  Meaning...everything is sacred in that it holds meaning in our life, but yet, it's not serious.  No matter how bad it may seem, there is something to be learned, yet it, too, shall pass.

I left the retreat with two major takeaways:

• How far I'd come in only one year.  At last year's retreat, I was a mess.  I "rolled" into the Center with many circumstantial challenges about a month prior.  I felt at ease to learn and release the "crud" that was going on within me, thus creating the "crud" going on outside of me and creating my "cruddy" circumstances.  In only one year since then, I realized how transformed of a person I have become.  My life is completely different as a result of learning the lessons taught at CSLCV, implementing them daily into my life, taking advantage of classes offered so I can truly learn the ins and outs of this great philosophy, and giving of my time to the Center.
• Be careful what you "wish" for.  I mean that with all the positivity in the world.  As I looked back a year, I truly decided to "test" this new-found philosophy of Science of Mind...(new to me, not new to the world).  I set a few intentions for the year ahead of me, held true to the vision, emotion and action to allowing those intentions to occur, and EVERY one did.  As I looked back on the demonstrations of the previous year, I realized how powerful one's mind is, therefore, I am now extremely careful with the thoughts that I allow to "rent" space in my mind.  I have "wished" for things in the past.  Things, that quite honestly, were for an increased life for me, but not necessarily for all involved, and it didn't make for a really abundant life.  Now, I think in terms of increasing my own life for the best of all involved, and I will say, it makes for a much more satisfying life.

With much gratitude, I extend my thanks to the committee who organized the event and delivered another transformational day for our members.

I'm already excited to see what the next year will bring!