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How to make people feel safe around you #connection #psychology

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SoulWords—Rabbi Shais Taub

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what stray cats taught me about life. I have a whole long video on YouTube. I think actually a couple of long videos on YouTube about this, but I give you a short version. There's so many life lessons I learned from stray cats, but probably the biggest one that I could sum up in less than 30 seconds is that so much of the way we relate to other creatures is nonverbal. And we put so much emphasis on our words, our words, our words, our words. If you're giving off energy that's making another living being feel uncomfortable, then it doesn't matter how gracious your words are. Stray cats are skittish little creatures. For them, it's all about energetic self-containment. If you can make yourself safe by muting the expansiveness of your energy, they will show you that you've made yourself a safe person for them. You don't need to talk them into it. You don't need to find an eloquent way to convince them. And the reality is, I think 90% of human interactions are the same, and we just can't face the facts and realize it. But the stray cats, they helped me to realize it.