Compassion.

Kindness.

Both are qualities that increase in capacity by exercise.  The more you demonstrate these qualities the stronger their expression becomes in your life

The Practiced Pause.  This is a tool I use  and teach on.  It only takes a pause, a few seconds, to move from REACTION to purposeful RESPONSE.  Words have a long shelf life and words spoken too quickly often come back to bite.  In a variety of ways those words can bite back!

So consider today how a Practiced Pause might improve your capacities –

“The Practiced Pause provides the time essential to the action of compassion adn the right words to bestow productive kindness.”  mary anne radmacher –

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