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.

Day 87 - A Year to Clear - You Are Enough

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Lesson 87: You Are Enough

“We do not have to improve ourselves, we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.”

— Jack Kornfield

Today is about really accepting yourself just the way you are. We do not need to improve ourselves. We are perfect in our imperfection. People think changing themselves is an answer but it’s more about discovering your true self. When we are ready, we will know that there is some time for growth but you definitely are not changing yourself, you’re just expanding yourself further. No matter what experiences you’ve been through, no matter what has rocked you to the core, those experiences have definitely come to shape who you are. You may view yourself as needing to be fixed but that’s not necessary – no one needs fixing. We just simply grow from those experiences and then we create our own story. If we could view everyone in this way, think about how accepting and tolerant we would be for all people. Everyone has a story that we don’t know about and each person on their journey is continuously expanding. Who are we to judge another? If we can hold this view upon ourselves, imagine what it would be like to hold this view on others. Accept that no one needs fixing but are at different stages of life.