The Meaning of Life is More than You Imagined

B'SD

21/22 Tevet 5775

I found myself struggling to enjoy this past Shabbat, wondering all the while how shoppers in France's Hyper Cacher were faring. 

I could not and would not access media until after sundown Saturday night. A lack of updated information was hard to endure.

I prayed for the world's well being, 

and an immediate end to terrorism.

I pondered how some of the survivors of past terrorist attacks are able to thrive despite agonizing memories and perhaps injuries.

Westerners tend to believe mass media's message that life is for happiness. That elusive (and imaginary) goal tends to shepherd people into therapy.

Let's clear up some misperceptions, and focus on the fact that...

There's More to Life Than Being Happy.

Here's proof of that: American Hero. 

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When Empathy, Not Sympathy, is Called for

B'SD

17 Tevet, 5775

Much of the world is struggling to grasp, and to cope with, the enormous meaning of the cold-blooded murders at Paris' Charlie Hebdo magazine office.

No matter your politics or spiritual persuasions, when you or someone else face overwhelming horror, the most compassionate response you can give to affected others is a form of compassion called empathy. No, not sympathy, empathy.

Sympathy has a tendency to sound  condescending in some circumstances. Some errant people feign sympathy to seem better than the people in their vicinity. Others offer sympathy due to a lack of knowing better ways to behave in given circumstances.

Empathy is an identification with and/or appreciation for the unhappy person's sense of misery. This video explains the concept simply.

The same wisdom is true for people facing frightening diagnoses, financial, emotional and other situations aka disasters.

Confused? Practice sympathy and empathy with a role-playing partner until both of you understand the difference.

We've all been there, and plodded along just as you might until you make the emotional connection.

I'm sighing with you.




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Focus on relevant emotions so you can deal with them, and with sad people, sensibly.

More than a Perfume and a Pretty Flower, Jasmine Might Soon Cure Cancer!

B'SD

28 Tamuz 5768

We women know that jasmine is heady, romantic (well, you men know that, too) and pretty. Here's even BETTER news:

Jasmine might soon cure cancer.

Talk about a natural cure! The flower holds a plant stress hormone called jasmonate. That protects the flower from injury. That's a very simplified summary of complicated information.

This is easy to understand: Jasmonate causes cancer cell death.

Israeli company Sepal plans to use jasmonate's unique chemical properties to make cancer drugs more effective AND to develop jasmonate into a stand-alone cancer cure. Phase II clinical trials with a Sepal compound on leukemia patients are planned to begin in France in a few months.

CLICK HERE for more information on this exciting development.

To your good health,


Yocheved Golani Author, Journalist, Self-Help Coach

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