T W E N T Y S E C O N D S
What can you do in just a mere
T W E N T Y S E C O N D S
Micro-Meditate
Stretch
Deep Breathe
Order a Meal
Add a few songs from a Spotify Playlist
Gift someone an Album
Donate to a Charity
Get a mini work out in
Book a Cleaning
Boost your mood by reading an inspirational quote
Set a Tiny goal
Pay your credit card bill
Find a restaurant and book a reservation
Schedule a hair appointment
Change your Facebook relationship status
Send an Error report
Check in on your sleep quality
Take and upload a Selfie
Text Anyone
Set a fantasy football lineup
Update our to-do list
Order alcohol to your front door with an app
TELL IF SOMEONE IS COMPASSIONATE
in just a mere
T W E N T Y S E C O N D S
Pssssssssssst:
Someone can actually tell in a mere twenty seconds
if you are really
C o m p a s s i o n a t e
According to a new study out of the University of California, Berkley, a person can in
t w e n t y s e c o n d s
tell if you are a compassionate person
by the way you have more open body language
eye contact
head nods
and smiling.
Imagine walking into a lab
and are shown a series of 20-second video clips
In each clip, a different person is listening to someone else speaking.
You can’t hear the conversation,
there’s no sound to the clip
but you’re told that the speaker is talking a time
when he or she suffered. . .
S E R I O U S L Y
Do you listen with your whole body?
(Literally, turn your whole body towards the person who’s speaking to you)
Do you make soft eye contact?
(Literally, not staring a person down but looking at a person full in their face; eyes, mouth, forehead)
Do you offer simple connecting gestures?
(Literally, smiling, nodding your head, and ‘uh-huh-ing’ without interrupting the speaker)
These three simple steps, the researchers tell us,
are simple but not always easy to do
when we’re distracted, busy or stressed out ourselves.
It takes just a mere
T W E N T Y S E C O N D S
and it’s a great reminder that there’s no
wait time
not even a second
for compassion to spontaneously arise.
When we have the
i n t e n t i o n
to experience
and offer
c o m p a s s i o n
we can make choices–even small ones
like how to make eye contact
that can lead to
authentic compassion
The Ba-Zillion Dollar Question:
W I L L Y O U ?