Why move to a place of compassion?

Regardless of your beliefs, your life experiences bring you face-to- face with choices. You can decide to be grateful for whatever unfolds, love and accept yourself and others as they are, or judge and reject people, even get angry.  Consider why it pays to move to an unwavering place of compassion; 

1) Emotions no longer control you. When you permit people to push your buttons, this reinforces illusions of inadequacy and insecurity. The domino effect may lead you to imagine fear, vulnerability and other distractions. This creates unnecessary stress. Mental discipline dissolves it.

2) Feeling hurt does not matter.  Feeling exposed, ridiculed or judged, explain why human beings resist being honest.  To realize you are always worthy frees you to stop saying what you are not and realize what you are. Emotional pain may evoke discomfort, but only as long as you do not choose to sense it for what it is. Soul knows what matters. Ego just makes it up.

3) Misplaced beliefs begin to crumble. So long as you believe someone can hurt you with words, make your life challenging with lies or untoward behaviour, then these experiences are more likely to unfold.  As you evolve, you sense discomfort is a symptom of something you do not yet recognize and accept inside. This prompts you to change how you think and act. You also start to feel grateful, to love people who seem to make life hard. They draw attention to your own misplaced thoughts and feelings calling for new attention.

4) Lessons become clearer.  To turn away from perceived problems does not enable you to grow to see what conditions are telling you about yourself.  Every event that unfolds is the universe acting to empower you to see and address beliefs that do not serve you. As you move to explore what causes you to react to people with anything other than compassion, then lessons become clearer in the now. You get closer to truth.

Comments

[Jannie Funster]

Just reading this without yet putting it into "action" has made me feel so open and free for what compassion lies ahead. But then again, choosing our thoughts is a kind of action.

Thank you.

[Natural Moments]

Another way of saying this is that if we wish to operate from our souls, then we can not believe in what anyone else says. If we believe in someone else's point of view, then a spell has been cast upon us. We have then become hypnotised and brainwashed. If what the other has said is negative and we believe it, then we have been cursed.

However, we should appreciate the point of view of others. We can learn from it, but not attach ourselves to it. Everything in life, no matter what it is, can be considered interesting. By realizing everyone lives from a different focal point and is living in a different dream, then we can learn to be more accepting and compassionate. All points of energy have liberty to express themselves in whatever way they feel they need to, whether one thinks the actions are good or bad. Everything just is.

[Liara Covert]

Jannie, human beings are conditioned to be easily frustrated, bothered, angered, to even desire revenge when someone seems to make life hard. If you discern that you are meant to transcend these conditioned negative, reflexes, and you choose to do so, then you discover compassion creates a completely different experience. It is possible to be grateful for perceived hardship, for supposed suffering. You can grow to uncover what exists beyond emotion, what forms energy can take within, around you on parallel planes, and on the Other Side.

[Liara Covert]

Natural Moments, as you say, "everything just is." Human beings are equipped to discern what they sense and feel at a given moment. Many layers of awareness exist. Not every being chooses to operate at soul level. Not every being resonates on wavelengths of spiritual growth. A range of sensations exist as well as a range of perceptions between conditional and unconditional love and acceptance. One may evolve to accept some things and still resist others. Resistence is a helpful guide because it teaches you where further attention is needed right now. If love and compassion are the only real answer, any other perspective is shrouded in misunderstanding.

[Natural Moments]

Does what we learn here on earth expand or contract how we operate on the other side? If we open our minds in this condensed energy, does it open our minds to an even greater degree on the other side of the veil? Or is this just an illusion since the higher self can experience anything it wishes to on the other side? Or does the higher self evolve and expand on the other side too? Is there a benefit to living and operating from a soul level on earth, or is it just a story we want to feel and experience just like any other story?

[Alexys Fairfield]

Hi Liara,

I just read an article on how two guys started an organization 10 years ago called, Pass It On. They donated millions of their own money to help the needy and their wish is to remain anonymous.

We can all use a little more compassion to make the tonic of life go down easier.

Thanks for sharing this compassionate post. :D

[Liara Covert]

Natural Moments, as an energy being evolves to detach from ego, then that being ceases to measure, compare and organize experiences into hierarchies. These are human tendancies. To feel presence is to discover a dimension within self that exists in every being, yet not every being chooses to be aware or sense it. Space consciousness opens the mind to spiritual realities which alone provide the true meaning of who you are. The truth is felt. To ask certain questions is to reveal you are trapped in a state of mind that blocks higher awareness. You never inquire for reasons you assume. Each thought restores awareness.

[Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk]

A sense of humor helps a lot too. I just spent 1 1/2 hours tonight dealing with red tape. There's a lot more to come Monday but feeling frustrated isn't productive. I agree compassion is important. The last interaction (the first person went home for the weekend before we finished so I had to start from scratch) ended on a very friendly note. Nothing was resolved, but she did the best she could and I thanked her for trying.

A great exercise in patience, compassion and humor.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, great story! Part of each human being does things anonymously for the benefit of others. As consciousness and awareness shift, then individuals attune to what exactly they are doing to change worlds.

[Liara Covert]

Jean, you kindly remind readers that compassion is a saving grace. One can nurture compassion for supposed enemies, for individuals who appear to make your life more mundane or hectic, for people who are not consciously aware of their own inner power, for yourself, so that you shift focus, redirect energy and inspire others. Energy feels heavy and murky until you choose to learn how to release what does not matter. This life-changing process recreates a priceless lightness of being inside.

[Lance]

Hi Liara,

Being able to get to a place of compassion is a journey that is worth taking. Being in such a state is a gift to yourself and to others. Compassion shines light!

[Liara Covert]

Lance, the negative side of any situation is easier to recognize as dysfunctional than an apparent positive one. It is also more likely you notice sources of negative feelings in others than in yourself. Human beings often assume love and compassion are states that liberate a mind from ego and fear or forms of incompleteness. And yet, to identify with the mind on any level is to derive who you are from things that are irrelevant. That being said, what then? To focus one's compassion in the present moment is to detach from inconsequential distraction. Suddenly, you are an astute observer, noticing patterns of your mind, certain roles of ego, you are ready to release.