PEACE WEEK V: EMPATHY
Well as a big fan of acronyms I could keep this “peace” week going for a long time, however Joy awaits and so do a lot of other topics. So here’s the wrap up of the3 week for now.
Put Ego Aside Create empathy
Sometimes seeking peace is a within you thing. Sometimes Seeking peace is an external thing—like finding a spot that helps you feel comfortable. However, many times seeking peace is a “between us thing.” That’s where the whole “ego thing gets tricky.
So often it seems peace disappears when others act in a way that we don’t. Understand. In short we are left with a giant WHY to deal with. Empathy sounds like this warm and fuzzy counselor /pastoral word,but in the end it is simply getting to somebody else’s why....
Now getting to the “why” can take many paths, some short, some long, some straight, some as crooked as a room full of politicians, lawyers, and used car salesman—just kidding....let’s say non-linear like Snake Ally (Burlington, Iowa).
Finding the best path to Empathy (and Battleship)
Most kids of a certain age have played this game where you call out coordinates hoping to get a “hit” and sink the opponents ships to win the game. Now in playing the game your guesses almost never started out by using the placement of your ships as the prompts did it? N. Well let’s move that over to attempts to understanding something or something outside your comfort zone. How often do we start with. Us?—Our notions?—Our values?—Our perceptions? Rarely do we allow our minds to start at a fresh place or a place where every.thought we have about someone else is not a comparison to us. will a good chicken sandwich ever taste like a cheeseburger?
What I’m getting at is that we make the path to empathy more difficult and sometime impossible by making it a comparative process. The comparative approach at best leads to what something or someone is not ASo a car is not a house, a tr3ee, or a fish but if we start with the question how is this car like a house we can find some answers. For. Instance some people live in a car and eat in the car and spend as much for a car as others spend on a house. A car can be the3 same. Color as a house. Then again what if the lack of peace comes from. How to make the car. Run faster? How much knowledge of plumbing is going to help make your car’s engine turn over at higher RPMs?
In short starting with you—your ego—your preferences....just may not be the fastest way to create empathy.
Well I think for many people empathy is hard East when. They run into someone who is. Pessimistic if they are an optimist and of course vise versa. Of course that’s my view and so one day I sat down and. Tried to start with a blank slate. Why would someone have a pattern of negative thinking or even an instance of it? Well I came up with this. Little rhyme . I put this. In a post about a year ago, however I feel like it fits here. I hope you’ve enjoyed peace week and for a summary and wrap up I’ll be putting that in a podcast later. Today or early tomorrow...o(the link is below. Or I’ll put it on facebook and twitter. For Now.. I’ll end the week with this....Go out and make yourself some PEACE
The Power of Negative Thinking
Always saying yes to everything well that is not okay
And following the crowd is a “no” when your values aren’t that way
Sometimes you must say nada to your fears of yesterday
And sometimes leave a stone unturned when you’ve had enough today
You have to cheer for cloudy skies for there’s a purpose for the rain
Sometimes you say no thanks to the pills and learn to understand your pain
Sometimes you should stay quiet when you would love to complain
And sometimess say no way to rushing and just catch the next train
Some times you need to stand. And say I do not agree
What you’re selling I’m not buying so please. Just let me be
Sometimes you just must leave a fight when no learning can take place
Many times refusing requires lots of grace
To sum up there will be some times when you’ve got to stop the flow
Put some some of your burdens down and let your ego go
You simply can’t let every.weed in. Your garden growIn short say yes a lot but now and then peace and joy means no
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