Compassion. For most of my life, I had no idea what the true meaning of that word was. I thought it was just a pretty way of saying pity. You know, pity is when you look at someone else and think or say “Oh that poor person. They have it so badly. I feel sorry for them.” Pity was easy for me to understand and to hand out in any given situation, both to others and certainly to myself. Our society reinforces the “poor me” or “poor you” perspective all the time through the media, be it news reports, books, movies or plays. If you don’t have “this” or “that” happens to you, you are described as being unfortunate, deprived or a victim.
Nope, compassion has nothing to do with pity. In fact, compassion is the complete opposite energy of pity. Pity is based upon seeing ourselves as separate from each other, and using that separation mentality to judge yourself or others against some standard. The energy of compassion is to see yourself as the same as everyone else, connected at the Soul level, and then to feel love for another Soul on the journey it has chosen to take in this lifetime. Doing so brings you into Oneness, that Divine feeling of being far bigger than that single body you see in the mirror each day, of belonging to the entire spectrum of All That Is. Living in this state of being puts you squarely in the Flow of Life, and you experience the synchronicity and ease of abundance that accompanies it.
It is no wonder that I didn’t understand compassion because just like most all of us, I didn’t receive the unconditional love that I so yearned for as a child. That left me with a disconnected perspective of love, feeling it had to come from outside myself instead of flowing from my Divine center within. Compassion is all about the unconditional love, which is the main reason why most of us find it difficult to truly express. You can’t give what you don’t have, and that means if you haven’t done the work to find the unconditional love for yourself, then you’ll never be able to share it with others in any form, including compassion.
All hope is not lost when it comes to developing compassion, however. Since compassion is part of your Divine nature, that essence within you that runs also through everyone and everything in our world, it is still available for you to connect with. You were hardwired with compassion at the Soul level, so no amount of social programming could destroy it. Obscure it, yes. Destroy it, never. As long as you are here on the planet, compassion is a gift within you that is ready to be applied and lived at any moment.
So if we all have it at our core and there is nothing we can do to destroy it, then why aren’t we all living from a place of compassion on a daily basis? Doing so would certainly make life a lot more enjoyable for everyone, that’s for sure. Well, here’s where the unconditional love thing comes home to roost. To feel and live from compassion towards others requires that you first find compassion for yourself, which translates into giving yourself unconditional love. This means you loving yourself no matter how you look, what you say, what you do or how you feel, and that you continue loving yourself no matter what someone else says, does or feels. The type of love is unshakable, endless and complete.
Not surprising, most of us are lost when it comes to giving unconditional love to ourselves as we haven’t had the experiences in life to help us understand it. In my next post, I’ll delve into why that is and how you can overcome your barriers to finding this level of love for yourself.
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