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Dec 2020
5m 26s

Finding Your Compassionate Heart

RELIGION OF SPORTS
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When you are sustained by love and feel compassion for others, your become part of a constant give-and-take, what a physiologist would call a feedback loop, that goes from your heart to every cell in your body and from you to everyone you encounter. 
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