Compassion is a good medicine to patient, family and friends! learn to show it.

READ

“SO LONG as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain,” wrote Helen Keller. Keller certainly understood emotional pain. At the age of 19 months, an illness left her totally blind and deaf. But a compassionate teacher taught Helen to read and write in Braille and, later, to speak.

Keller’s teacher, Ann Sullivan, knew only too well the frustration of fighting a physical disability. She herself was nearly blind. But Ann patiently devised a way to communicate with Helen by “spelling out” letters on Helen’s hand. Inspired by the empathy of her teacher, Helen decided to dedicate her own life to helping the blind and the deaf. Having overcome her own disability at great effort, she felt for those who were in similar circumstances. She wanted to help them.

You have likely observed that in this selfish world, it is easy to ’shut the door of one’s tender compassions’ and ignore the needs of others.

By developing your emotional literacy and becoming aware of others needs you start to fill fufill in you daily life.

Do you need help developing your emotions. Give call or send me an email. larry@lahe.org.uk.