Day 87 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The Heart of Compassion...

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Lesson 87: The Heart of Compassion...

As we evolve and grow into the passage of the heart that holds compassion, we can’t discount the passage of pain that still holds within the first. We have the ability to change our pain into pure love. It’s about taking the pain and transmuting it with compassion in order to stir the love in. Definitely not an easy task for some but know that it’s possible.

Today’s exercise is about closing your eyes and picturing a time in which you felt pain. With all these past events, apply compassion to the situation. If we can provide compassion not only for ourselves but those involved, it really shows our opening of the heart.

I’ve recently had hypnotherapy which really gave me peace to so much past trauma that I feel good now. The only moment in which I was applying compassion, was as memory I had buried in my subconscious of my mother’s ex-boyfriend. He called me a loser and I would never get a boyfriend with the way that I was. I was a teenager at the time, was so unsure of myself and that just wasn’t the nicest thing to say. At the time I cried, never told my mum and moved on from it eventually. It dropped into my head the other day for something to deal with. I held compassion for my mum’s ex, because he just didn’t really know how to be around children, and I felt sad for him in sense that he leads a lonely existence, won’t have good human connections and that may just come down to the  type of person he is. I am grateful I have a good support system but I just don’t see the same for him. So even though he was mean to me, it doesn’t impact me and I feel he needs my compassion more than I hold onto any of his words. He won’t change and he doesn’t need to. I can only hope he evolves as a person and can only pass on good thoughts for his future.

Try this exercise and see what happens for you when you apply compassion.