Caring Connections - Practicing Pure Unlimited Love During the Holidays

 This year, practice pure unlimited love. What is love? When the security and well-being of another is a real or meaningful to you as your own, and sometimes more so, you love that person. And be open about an even higher love, pure unlimited love.

 
As the holidays approach, Dr. Stephen G. Post shares PURE UNLIMITED LOVE:  Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace (Nov 2025). Known for Compassionate Care, Post is the President/Co-Founder with Sir John Templeton of the Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love, and is Dir of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
 
“This holiday season, lean outwards toward a shared humanity and do some good things for the neediest and the vulnerable. Do something to benefit those who are outside the everyday circles of people who you are close to. Try to involve your whole family in activities that bring comfort and hope to all people, especially those who are suffering,” urges Post. 

• After that meal and the opening of presents, sit down at the computer and google something like Compassion International. You can send a small amount of money, say $25, to a child in an impoverished part of the world. That child will write a little thank your note that will show up at your home address in a month or so. They will tell you how much that small bit of money did for them, and you can then respond and build a relationship that can sometimes unfold in almost miraculous ways.
• Take the family out to a local assisted living center and sing a few songs for an older person who is deeply forgetful, or just maybe lonely. If you have a family member with dementia, sing to them and with them. It works, and has even become a national movement, Music & Memory.
• Let us respect and celebrate one another even when we have differing opinions, which is inevitable in any family or friendship. Love requires mutual patience and acceptance of one another. Embrace the spirituality not of sameness, but rather of difference.

About the Author:
Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He founded the Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love with initial support from his mentor Sir John Templeton. Dr. Postis the author of several books, including Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Happier, Healthier Life by the Simple Act of Giving, has authored over 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has been interviewed by leading newspapers around the world. He is an elected member of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine, as well as a Founding Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. He lives on Long Island, New York.