Expanding Your Compassion

Earlier this week,

I wrote about having compassion for your younger self.

And about how compassion can come from understanding

the lack of understanding.

I’ve learned that the more compassion we have for ourselves,

the more compassion we can have for others.

Because when we begin to understand

how our own painful experiences, wounds, fears,

and lack of awareness

have shaped our choices,

then we can begin to understand

that other people's choices

have also been shaped by their experiences.

We've all experienced what it's like to make decisions

from the awareness we have at this point in our life,

in contrast to the lack of awareness we had in our younger years.

We know what it's like to repeat a pattern

before knowing how to interrupt it.

We know what it’s like to react from a wound

before learning how to tend to it instead.

We know what it’s like to make choices that aren’t good for us

before we’ve learned how to choose differently.

And when we develop that understanding for ourselves

it can soften the way we see other people.

We can have more understanding and less judgement of others.

And we can expand our compassion to include them.

✨Your own humanity teaches you to have compassion for the humanity in others.

You don't have to understand someone else's choices

to recognize that they're human,

imperfect,

and learning as they go.

Just like you.

I want to point out that we can have compassion

without excusing harmful behavior.

We don’t have to abandon our boundaries

or accept behavior that isn't okay.

Compassion simply allows us to open our hearts

and understand the lack of understanding in others ~

because none of us know what we don’t know yet.

We can have compassion for all the ways

that we hurt ourselves and each other

while at the same time we're still learning

how to love ourselves more fully.

Self-Love teaches us compassion and understanding for ourselves,

which naturally expands our compassion and understanding for others.

"The compassion we cultivate for ourselves directly transmits itself to others." ~ Kristin Neff

💗 Let Compassion Expand

I invite you to place both hands over your heart.

Take a few slow, deep breaths and allow yourself to soften.

Fill your heart with compassion for yourself,

then imagine it gently expanding outward to your whole community.

We’re all learning how to be human together.

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It's so beautiful when we all let our compassion expand outwards.

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Let’s rise together ~ in Love & Light,

Jaime

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