This video from Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley is a fascinating take on Darwin, human evolution, brain function and social class and interactions. May human self interest move in this direction.
After all, we are built for it. 🙏
Life is a series of highs and lows. Be grateful in the highs. Be graceful in the lows. Find contentment in your Middle Ground
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Thanks Beth. I love it too 💕
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Wonderful, Val. Thank you for posting this today. 🙏🏻💜
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Thank you Carrie 💛🙏🏼💛
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this is just brilliant
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Agreed! Thanks Ananda 🙏
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Maybe it’s possible to up the moments of empathy and caring. Fascinating about how the “lower” classes give more than the “upper” classes. I have heard that before.
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It is fascinating isn’t it. May we bring more of this into the world… without it being triggered by a disaster or catastrophe on the news. 🙏
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Yes we are built to be kind, interact, love, hug, be together and find joy in our hearts.
May we each find again that connection within ourselves to share our hearts with each other .. ❤
Much love my friend ❤
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Thank you so much Sue. There is much conditioning and distractions elsewhere. May we all do our bit to bring more empathy and kindness into the world around us.
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Yes, that is what we need to focus upon.
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Wow!Love it.
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Thank you 🙏
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yes Dacher Keltner…so wonderful Val ~ 🕊🤍☺️ thanks for this today💫
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So interesting! It helps explain a lot of the behavior we’re seeing in privileged societies, and technology may be exacerbating the gap. Mind the gap!
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Bringing awareness to the gap is powerful ☃️🌟🕊
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Val, thank you for this video. It’s hopeful. It reminded me of one of my recent blog posts titled “I Feel Your Pain.” I hope you don’t mind if I share the link here: https://billtonnisministries.com/2022/01/13/i-feel-your-pain/
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Beautiful Val. Our beautiful natural state within is not something to be searched for but rather understood it is always here. We have always been this. 🧡🧡
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The more difficult and hard our experiences, the more empathy and appreciation is indeed gained by them. The richer (and this doesn’t apply to them all), ruling class don’t have that as much, and make decisions that affect us all from that ‘less’ empathy scale, that less giving place, that shows us that a more fair and just way would be to allow the ‘lower’ class to rule. But the ego’s, prompted by that less empathy, of that richer class won’t allow that…so we suffer…and become more loving, more empathetic as they become less. I think it certainly divides the sheep Val 😀 ❤️ 🙏🏽 🦋
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None of my comments go through on your posts for me Val not sure why🤓🤷♀️but I appreciate this post very much ~ sending joy hedy
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Hi Hedy! We connected this time 🥰. Thanks so much 💛🙏💛
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Oh good I’ve got no idea some blogs seem to request information to post 🤷♀️ but the video reminded me of chakras and other eastern philosophies … have a joyful day Val 🤍🕊🙋♀️
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Excellent video. Thanks, Val.
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Agreed! Thanks Nancy 💛
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it’s good to know that we are built to be good…
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I hear you Jim 💛
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