Happy New Year everyone!

As the year is changing I thought it would be appropriate to gather a top 10 of all our posts so far. I began the task and before long I realised that I had ended up with a top 20 before I even had gone through half of our posts.. So I decided to leave it and forget about the whole thing. Instead, I want to urge you to make 2012 a year filled with love. Because I can't think of any better answer to every question you ever had than love. What else is there to want or need? If all your thoughts, words and actions stem from love (and you know in your heart when that love is real) what could possibly go wrong? Living from love is the same as following your heart and that in turn means being happy. And it's what the wise people throughout time keep on saying, even if it is sometimes dressed in the word compassion. So whatever new year's resolutions you are making, let them grow out of love for yourself and for everything and everyone else in the universe, because really it's all one and the same.

<3<3<3

Emma

In the light of the previous post..

..I want to share this video with you. It's a talk given by Tim 'Mac' Macartney, who is the founder of Embercombe.

Emma

The importance of compassion

This blog is not only about the physical aspects of health and well-being, but also about the mental and spiritual sides of it. To me, the easiest way to feel good, on the inside, is to do good.

Emma talked about compassion in her post about the Dalai Lama, and he is definitely on to something. When I first started working here at the airport in Helsinki, I had a hard time because of the nature of my job. I felt I wasn't doing any good at all, quite the opposite, and that there was no purpose what-so-ever to what I was doing every day. After a talk with my dad, he made me feel a little better about it, by telling me that the importence does not lie in what you do, but how you do it. If I meet every single one of my customers with true compassion and treat them each like an individual person, I am already making a difference. I try to keep this in mind every day at work, and at other times too.

It shouldn't be a secret to anyone that love is what makes the biggest difference in this world. So in my opinion, in order for love to truly be all around, we need to spread it. Each and every one of us. So why not try to do one good deed every day, one thing that is completely unselfish and from which you expect nothing in return? Who knows, what goes around might just come around.

If you respect someone, love someone, appreciate someone, just see someone as important in your life, tell them! There is not enough of that in the world. I feel like in our society people are scared of being told nice things, and I don't think that's how it should be. Remember to say please and thank you, to wish people a good morning, and to treat everyone like they matter, because they do. And so do you!

Anna