Finding Healing for the Healers

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December 29, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. - Stephen Levine - Finding Healing for the Healers "Seventeen years ago in the Boston Globe Magazine, a dying man issued a plea for greater compassion in medicine. He worried that medical professionals faced increasing work demands that prioritized efficiency over empathy. Kenneth Schwartz died of lung cancer two months later, but not before founding an organization that would bring increased attention to the importance of human interactions in medicine." { read more } Be The Change This powerful passage by an extraordinary doctor and writer describes the differences between "Helping, Fixing and Serving." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time 5 Powerful Tools for Reflection Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700 7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less How One Teenager Used Her Life Savings How to Change When Change Is Hard The Power of Self-Compassion DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,847 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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A Good Day In Haiti

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December 28, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius - A Good Day In Haiti Lovely Avelus graduated from kindergarten this past June in Haiti..."It was a big day for little Lovely, now 5. Two years ago, she was buried in the rubble of the two-storey house her family rented a room in by the 7.0 Richter earthquake that smashed this already broken country into shards. Lovely was counted among the dead who, by the end of it all, measured some 300,000. She emerged unblemished from the rubble six days later, and was eventually reunited with her family. No one thought they'd ever see Lovely again, let alone watch her graduate from kindergarten." A reporter shares more about the lessons Lovely and her country have taught her. { read more } Be The Change Affect the quality of your day by taking time to appreciate it. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness The 3 A's of Awesome 11 Amazing Thank You Notes Over Ten Thousand People Attend His Funeral How to Change When Change Is Hard Can Positive Thoughts Help Heal Another? Barbara Kingsolver On How to Be Hopeful DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,820 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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Rocky Anna: Love Is The Only Currency

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December 27, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. When you make a difference with what you have it expands. - Lynn Twist - Rocky Anna: Love Is The Only Currency Rocky Braat is no one special. He'd tell you that himself his friends say. His emails are full of misspellings and typos. But he has given his life to the love of others. This is a guy who didn't even particularly like kids to begin with. But then he had his heart broken -- open. Today the 30-something-year-old graphic designer from Pittsburgh lives in a cement hut and has dedicated the rest of his life to a community of AIDS orphans in Chennai, South India. "Blood Brother" is a new documentary made by a 100% volunteer crew that opens a window on "Rocky Anna's" journey. A journey of raw, ragged edges that reaches beyond the harsh veil of suffering for our transformative capacity to love. Watch the gripping trailer for it here. { read more } Be The Change Send Rocky a note of gratitude and good wishes for his inspired work. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 98-Year-Old Woman Earns Judo's Highest Honor Homeless Man Bails out Banker A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral A 21-Year-Old's Solution to Homelessness Secrets from 17 Years of Silence The Body's Grace: A Paralyzed Yoga Teacher's Insights Today You, Tomorrow Me From 'Dummy' to Celebrated Brain Surgeon DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,801 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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Dan Pink's Challenge to You

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December 26, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace When we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection -- or compassionate action. - Daniel Goleman - Dan Pink's Challenge to You Some time ago when bad weather forced a commercial flight to divert to Hartford, Connecticut, some 106 miles north of its destination, the plane sat on the runway there for four hours -- without air-conditioning, food or water -- as babies wailed and adults anguished in the darkened cabin. The next day, the airline, which explained that the Hartford airport lacked the customs personnel to process an international flight, offered this response: "We would like to thank passengers for their patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused." Beginning with this example Daniel Pink makes the case that companies are talking 'professionalese' to keep customers and colleagues at a distance, when what people crave is openness and honesty. Then he issues a special challenge to each one of us... { read more } Be The Change Consider taking on Dan Pink's Challenge to "speak only human" at work! COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 5 Principles for Inner Transformation at Work The Decision-Making Flaw in Powerful People How To Respond to Failure Why Leaders Must Feel Pain Four Myths About Mentoring Take Your Life Back Less Work, More Living 10 Keys for Achieving Group Flow DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,780 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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