The Empathic Civilization

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March 24, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. - Dean Koontz - The Empathic Civilization We humans are soft-wired for sociability and affection, wanting to belong and to empathize. The question is "Can we extend our empathy to the entire human race and biosphere?" Bringing in recent insights from fields like neuroscience to anthropology, author and social thinker Jeremy Rifkin's maps out a solution in a stunningly visual and cohesive way. In this ten-minute video, he defines the empathic civilization -- and suggests that if we can imagine that possibility, we can save our species and our planet. "Empathy is grounded in the acknowledgment of death and the celebration of life, and rooting for each other to flourish and be ... the ability to show solidarity not only with each other, but our fellow creatures." { read more } Be The Change As you use your intellect today, make a conscious effort to add in courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Three Parables to Regain Perspective Homeless Man with 'Golden Voice' Simple Philosophy of the World's Oldest Man Five Tips For Making Travel Meaningful Where Children Sleep: A Poignant Photo Series Coelho's 1 Min Manual For Climbing Mountains Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard? Beauty in Subtlety DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 113,332 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Recovering the Heart of Medicine

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March 23, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Recovering the sacred is remembering something we've forgotten, something we may have hidden from ourselves. It is about uncovering and discovering the innate wholeness in ourselves and in the world. - Dr. Naomi Rachel Remen - Recovering the Heart of Medicine "Our modern view of disease is that disease is centered in the body. The older view of disease is that it is soul loss, a loss of connection, of meaning, of purpose, of essence. If this is so, the real task of the medical system is to heal soul loss, to aid in the retrieval of the soul. What is needed is not to develop more of a spiritual practice or to go to church more. Our task is to recognize that we are always on sacred ground, that there is no split between the sacred and secular. That there is no task that is not sacred in nature and no relationship that is not sacred in nature. Life is a spiritual practice. Health care, which serves life, is a spiritual practice." Renowned medical leader Dr. Naomi Rachel Remen shares more about recovering the heart of medicine. { read more } Be The Change An inspiring story of UCSF's Dr. BJ Miller, someone whose own journey of healing led him to serving others in healing. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Miracle Birth Simple Philosophy of the World's Oldest Man 7 Must-Read Books on Education Raising Kids to be Less Stuff-Centered Five Tips For Making Travel Meaningful When a Homeless Man Used Twitter The Professional Development Ethic The Art of Seeing DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 113,308 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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An Ordinary Magical Life

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March 22, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Things that I will do my best to carry on in your honor: I will order salad with french fries on the side, with a straight face. I will drink my tea with too much milk. I will carry cookies in my coat pocket for all the dogs. I will love unconditionally. - Eulogy for Shelagh Gordon, Feb 2012 - An Ordinary Magical Life "I met Shelagh Gordon at her funeral. My sharpest impression of her that day, as mourners in black pressed around me, was of her breathtaking kindness. Shelagh was freshly-in-love thoughtful. If she noticed your boots had holes, she'd press her new ones into your arms. When you casually admired her coffeemaker, you'd wake up to one of your own. A bag of chocolates hanging from your doorknob would greet you each Valentine's Day, along with some clippings from the newspaper she thought you'd find interesting. Shelagh made people around her feel not just loved but coveted. That was the golden thread that stitched together the ordinary seams of her life." The Star newspaper dedicated unprecedented coverage to this relatively unknown 55-year-old woman's funeral ... this remarkable story explains why. { read more } Be The Change Honor an ordinary, magical life in your own world. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Secrets of the 100-yr-old Marathoner A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral A Poem Is A 21-Year-Old's Solution to Homelessness Today You, Tomorrow Me Homeless Kid Wows Korea Pilot Holds Plane for a Dying Child The Burrito Man Who Changed Lives DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 113,282 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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10 Points on the Science of Spreading Good

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March 21, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house ... kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness. - Mother Teresa - 10 Points on the Science of Spreading Good "Good deeds are contagious. We naturally imitate the people around us, we adopt their ideas about appropriate behavior, and we feel what they feel. Acts of charity are no exception. In our 2010 generosity experiment, we showed that every extra dollar of giving in a game designed to measure altruism caused people who saw that giving to donate an extra twenty cents. Furthermore, the network acts like a matching grant: that same experiment showed that contagious generosity spreads up to three steps through the network (from person to person to person to person), and when we added up all the extra donations that resulted at every step, we found that an extra dollar in giving yielded three extra dollars by everyone else in the network." Internationally recognized political scientist James Fowler shares the science of spreading good. { read more } Be The Change Spread good today. Find something inspiring, make it more visible, and let the good ripple through your network. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 5 Ways of Spending Time -- toward Happiness How the Ancient World Used Color Visit the MET From Your Desk The Power of Feedback Loops Being the Change In Bihar Whiz Kids: 5 Amazing Young Inventors Mother of All Languages Can Science Create Heroes? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 113,240 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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