Having compassion is having sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. Having self-compassion is experiencing your difficult emotions with the phrase, “I’m going to treat myself with kindness even when I feel bad”. If you can constructively apply self-compassion with yourself, being compassionate with others becomes second nature. Compassion literally means, “to suffer together.” Emotion researchers define compassion as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering. Teaching and learning go hand in hand, being compassionate can allow you to reach students by suffering together on this bumpy learning road.

When somebody says something, what we really want is to be heard and listened to. Teachable moments begin with correctly interpreting all forms of communication within its given context and ends when you help someone grow from their experience. It takes wise counsel to know when to intervene. Real meanings behind words, sentences, and actions may often be hidden from view to those who don’t have a keen eye of understanding. A sentence may seem irrelevant, an awkward example such as when someone breaks silence and says, “so nice weather we’re having right”.. really is an attempt at breaking some awkward silence. Actions often times do speak louder then words. Uncovering true meanings behind non verbal communication is essential for helping your students. Learners have different coping mechanisms on dealing with problems. An educator provides better ways to deal with problems. A great educator is a great human observer that will identify a learner struggling with a problem and provide wisdom to solve them successfully. As a human observer you have the responsibility to hold the hand of that person who needs their hand held and to take them to their future benefits. Your pupil may be like a house that needs to be built from scratch, or may be adding another room or area to the current level of understanding and building upon what’s already there. It may be simply decorating the house with polish and a fresh coat of self-esteem building compliments. It is the human observers responsibility to find that need and give that need attention. It is better to be under construction rather than under destruction.

It is easier to cope with life when we are at our best. Life can be stressful and unpredictable. Appropriate sleep is needed to tackle a life filled with zig zags and curve balls that are constantly being thrown at us. A solid performing day comes after a night of solid performing sleep. The more sleep you have the more you will be able to enjoy your time and have your best day. You can have a really good day but it would have been an even better day if you had enough sleep. Sleep is really integral and requires integrity. You can’t really tell others to get enough sleep if you yourself are not getting enough sleep. There is a process called sleep consolidation that happens during your sleeping period, where you remember a lot of things. You basically put the things you learned that day into memory during this process. People who are learning require sleep to remember. Set a good example so you can tell others about its vital importance with confidence.