This week, you'll learn how to develop your ability to see any situation from multiple perspectives.

Seeing situations from many different points of view will increase your options and improve your choice making power. Viewing your life experiences from a broader perspective will also enable you to build wisdom and to exercise peaceful responses to ordinarily stressful events.

These are key components in mastering the art of presence. They also build upon your ability to be compassionate. What the world needs today is more compassion. So, by becoming a more compassionate person, you will help change the world for the better, as well as yourself.

Compassion is a great gift to those who practice it. Expanding your perspectives and building upon your ability to be an objective observer will increase your ability to be a more compassionate person. Compassion is not pity or sympathy. It is a profound understanding of what another person or animal is experiencing. That understanding expands our awareness of the connectedness of all things in this world.