Day 83 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The Second Passage

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Lesson 83: The second passage...

By now, you may have released some pain, if not all of it which is a great feat in itself! Good job! Today is all about moving into the second passage of the heart which is compassion. Close your eyes and let whatever image come to you. Feel the first person who comes into mind that requires some compassion. Note the differences between how you felt in pain to how you feel with compassion. Do you notice the shift?

The first person that came to mind was my dad. I don’t have a good relationship with my dad and I got hypnotherapy last week to clear some of the past trauma, and all associated attached feelings and emotions to those experiences. It’s been a good kind of weird, in that, I don’t have a rise in anger over petty things and I’m much more peaceful inside. The turmoil that once was, is now gone. With that in mind, the pain has ceased. What I do have to do for my dad is have compassion towards him. He’s getting on in years and I know he regrets his past actions, though there is no reason why I cannot have a relationship now. He doesn’t impact my life negatively anymore and therefore he has no power over me. I need to show compassion in the way that the past is the past, and let’s move onwards to spend whatever chapters we have left in a good way.

The most notable differences from the passage of pain to the passage of compassion is that there is more sense of peace and forgiveness. It’s about acceptance and tolerance of one self as well as others. It’s about not passing judgement and being kind.