Celestial Empathy Bracelet
Handmade Nigerian designed bracelet with brilliant Rhode Island stones in colors of clouds, transparency, and silver linings. The pattern is designed to highlight angels and other celestial beings, all of which are known for a spiritual level of empathy. This line of bracelets took Ada approximately 5 days to design based on Dr. Jason Okonofua's description of Celestial Empathy, a special kind of perspective-taking that is spiritual in nature. Research shows that across the major religions there lies a message of empathy, listening, and kindness for kindness sake. This kind of empathy draws on powerful beliefs in faith, science, and intuition to provide a mindfulness that is seemingly automatic or implicit. This is marked in the translucent way the stones bend light as it passes through. The theme is developed from research from Stanford University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ada, the designer, is a 7 year old artist in the 1st grade. Her name is Nigerian for "daughter to all" and she is known as princess in her village. She is above grade level in both reading and math which she uses to inform her arts which include books, jewelry, paintings, and abstract fabric and glass works. Each piece comes from a place of empathy, love, and joy like only a child could give. The proceeds go directly to Ada's education fund. Let this bracelet support you on your journey to empathize with others and kindness to your complex self.