PMAG 15 Compassion Parvati Magazine - February 2015: Compassion | Page 4

Welcome Editors Welcome to the February 2015 edition of PARVATI MAGAZINE. Emotions move through our body as a means for us to understand more viscerally our mental reactions to thoughts. When we feel afraid, our heart races. When we feel angry, our temperature rises. We feel in response to our thoughts. Our minds are a collection of expectations and memories. As such, our emotions tend to reflect our past experiences and future hopes. As we evolve, we learn to move beyond the chatter of emotional reactions and allow the room for compassion to arise. When the mind is clear, wisdom may effortlessly arise. Similarly, when our emotions are quiet, we may experience the well of compassion. Compassion is not an emotion, but a state of being. Unlike emotions, it is eternal. It is vast and unbound, unaffected by the temporal. It is a state that arises through the release of our identification with our emotions. It is an egoless state that we can aspire to embody each moment of this precious life. Parvati Devi Editor-in-Chief Pranada Devi Managing Editor May this month’s articles inspire you to gift this world by living with deep compassion. Parvati Parvati N E P TI M A ARVA GA I Z AN ENGAGED WORLD Parvati Magazine is your monthly source for awakened living. The name of the magazine is not about an individual person but a celebration of the goddess Parvati in Her incarnation as the awakened Earth. Ella Isakov Yoga Editor Contact Submissions: submit@parvati magazine.com Advertising: ads@parvati magazine.com Inquiries: info@parvati magazine.com