by Lawrence Cooper | Jun 14, 2021 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
Sometimes I may go beyond just emotional empathy, to actually share their hurt or pain in my body, my gut. This is a gift given to the empath to break through the walls of deep core hurt or trauma. In some cases the memories may be hidden from the mind but the pain is...
by Lawrence Cooper | Jun 6, 2021 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
When I engage in emotional empathy, I listen for voice tone and I read body language. I absorb their negative emotion and reflect it back to them filtered through the positive love energy from my own heart. I lead them gently from feeling to feeling so they can be...
by Lawrence Cooper | Jun 6, 2021 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
Self-acceptance is accepting my present position in life; the seat of the elder. I have entered into my 70’s, the age of wisdom. I have come to a place of peace with myself and with life, and I have discovered that it is okay to be 70. Aging does not have to be the...
by Lawrence Cooper | May 30, 2021 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
A Sense of Knowing Above all else, intuition is the knowing that there is more to life than what is perceived by my mind. I become aware of myself as a powerful spirit in a fragile human body with a fragile human mind. It is knowing that I have a heart that loves and...
by Lawrence Cooper | May 30, 2021 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
I have two powerful legs and two agile feet that can carry me to wherever the feast of my senses can best be enjoyed. I have two arms that can hold and two hands that can touch the ones I love. I have this wonderful brain that can integrate all these sensations and...
by Lawrence Cooper | May 24, 2021 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
That gut feeling, that little something instinctual from within, tells me how I feel beneath the workings of my logical mind. It other words, my brain and my gut talk to each other. I do not ignore this gut feeling; I act upon it, often averting hurt and damage to my...
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