Preventing Connecticut Type Tragedies: What Can YOU Do to Help Prevent Future Tragedies?
The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and other communities is tragic and horrific.
I lost a friend in the same type of useless death in my community as someone with emotional problems killed her and several others.
I would like to share ways that you can help prevent these type of killings and violence in your community.
Yet these tragic killings can be prevented...
by you.
1: Don't be afraid to MOURN, blame, to CRY, to be ANGRY as many of your values have crumbled by these tragedies.
It is part of living.
Let the mourning process flow as it will help you heal and get in touch with your feelings and values.
Be as deep as you can be and the healing will be more complete.
Many of our values such as love, trust, honesty, warmth and so many more have left our lives.
This is why we mourn.
These values are our life energy.
Just by acknowledging them is another sign to healing.
As these values are no longer with us our emotional energy depletes.
Also offering theses values to others revives our emotional energy.
2: Do spread the warmth, your care, your love to yourself and others.
Be proactive showing compassion to yourself and to others...
You come first and so do your values.
Find ways to appreciate and satisfy your needs.
This is your responsibility, not anthers.
You can always ask people to help, such as asking someone to listen to you without interrupting.
Such a healing effect this has.
3: Start right now by appreciating yourself and your life.
Build your emotional energy as you mourn by celebrating the life of those who have passed...
and ask what you may do to be proactive by enriching your emotional health and the emotional health of others that you may come into contact with.
A Tip...
Listen a little longer and keep the focus on the person you are listening to.
This is so simple yet what our society has been trained to do is offer advice and suggestions as people speaking mainly just want to be listened to, especially people that are in emotional pain.
If your emotional energy is depleted then tell the speaker that you are unable to listen to them and it would be ideal to meet when your energy is available.
It is an injustice and painful when listening to another with an empty consciousness.
I had to do this when my mother died and I was in mourning.
People would start telling me their stories and I was unable to listen with the patience that I would like.
I offered them my boundary and usually people would understand.
This action of listening with the intention to understand another is a gift to a person in pain.
It may build the speakers self- value, emotional energy and trust.
You can make a difference by just listening without offering advice or your story.
You may never know how positively you affect another by just listening...
a little bit longer.
You just may have averted another tragedy in the community.
I lost a friend in the same type of useless death in my community as someone with emotional problems killed her and several others.
I would like to share ways that you can help prevent these type of killings and violence in your community.
Yet these tragic killings can be prevented...
by you.
1: Don't be afraid to MOURN, blame, to CRY, to be ANGRY as many of your values have crumbled by these tragedies.
It is part of living.
Let the mourning process flow as it will help you heal and get in touch with your feelings and values.
Be as deep as you can be and the healing will be more complete.
Many of our values such as love, trust, honesty, warmth and so many more have left our lives.
This is why we mourn.
These values are our life energy.
Just by acknowledging them is another sign to healing.
As these values are no longer with us our emotional energy depletes.
Also offering theses values to others revives our emotional energy.
2: Do spread the warmth, your care, your love to yourself and others.
Be proactive showing compassion to yourself and to others...
You come first and so do your values.
Find ways to appreciate and satisfy your needs.
This is your responsibility, not anthers.
You can always ask people to help, such as asking someone to listen to you without interrupting.
Such a healing effect this has.
3: Start right now by appreciating yourself and your life.
Build your emotional energy as you mourn by celebrating the life of those who have passed...
and ask what you may do to be proactive by enriching your emotional health and the emotional health of others that you may come into contact with.
A Tip...
Listen a little longer and keep the focus on the person you are listening to.
This is so simple yet what our society has been trained to do is offer advice and suggestions as people speaking mainly just want to be listened to, especially people that are in emotional pain.
If your emotional energy is depleted then tell the speaker that you are unable to listen to them and it would be ideal to meet when your energy is available.
It is an injustice and painful when listening to another with an empty consciousness.
I had to do this when my mother died and I was in mourning.
People would start telling me their stories and I was unable to listen with the patience that I would like.
I offered them my boundary and usually people would understand.
This action of listening with the intention to understand another is a gift to a person in pain.
It may build the speakers self- value, emotional energy and trust.
You can make a difference by just listening without offering advice or your story.
You may never know how positively you affect another by just listening...
a little bit longer.
You just may have averted another tragedy in the community.
