Compassion

This month I want to talk about compassion. It is really easy to judge someone or get mad at someone when they are critical, or harsh with you. This used to be my pattern. When someone was caustic or had a sharp tongue, I would react with anger. I would take it personally and then judge them. What I have realized is that every person, at the core of his/her being, is good and pure. But, most people have resistance or wounds that masks this pure positive being.

I was witnessing a family member recently that was hurting everyone around her. She was quick to call someone a name, or make a rude comment. Now these types of behaviors are not appropriate and it is up to us to stand in our power and call someone out on them. We can do that with love. The way you do that is by telling the person how you feel and when you feel that way, what happens to you? When you communicate how you feel about what someone just said or did, it is your feelings and if communicated from a loving place instead of a reactionary place, you are being true to yourself. For example, when this family member told another family member, “You can’t do anything right.” It was communicated, “That really hurt my feelings. When you said that it hurts me and I feel like pulling away from you. I feel belittled and why would I want to be with someone that belittles me?” The message was loud and clear and came from a loving place. It was also received and an apology followed right after.

So then what do you do with that after it is over? That is where compassion comes in. There is a reason that someone is treating another in that way. They are somehow unhappy in their own life. If you judge them it separates you. If you instead feel compassion for them, it is an expanding and loving energy. Which all of us practicing with the universal laws knows that love is the highest vibration in the universe.

Compassion for others will help them heal. It will soften your heart, and then soften the energy between you. Here is a great process to work with energy to transform into compassion and love:

This is to assist you in clearing some of the emotional energies that may make it more difficult for you to connect with your Divine Self.

This is to give you one way to release and let go of some of the attachments and desires that may be holding you back from expressing the power and the light that you are. This is an easy technique, one that you can use any time you have emotions
such as doubt, or fear, anxiety, pain, anger, irritation, disappointment, hurt. You can lift all of those easily and in a moment, transform them into love, peace, serenity, compassion, and forgiveness of yourself and others. As you transform these emotional energies into the energy of your heart, you can expand more easily in every area of your life, into all the higher dimensions of your self, and there will be no impediments, no filters between your highest self and your personality self. So this is also a technique of turning your personality self into a more transparent vessel so that you can better express the eternal, endless, and infinite light within you.

Call upon your soul right now to be with you. It has a consciousness of its own, and your soul is aware of you. As you do this, you are opening the channels of communication to your soul. You are building a bridge of light to your soul, so that your soul’s love, and will, wisdom and intelligence can pour forth into you.

Feel your soul’s love for you. It never judges you. It knows that you are always doing the best you can, and that there are no mistakes, only learning and growth.

Your soul is a beautiful being of light, and it is growing as you grow, for you are your soul as it appears in the three dimensional reality of the earth plane. Sense your heart center, perhaps like a flower with many petals and a radiant jewel in its center, in an area around your physical heart but on a subtle plane, your heart chakra. Imagine now that your soul is assisting you in awakening this heart chakra,
this heart center, even more. Your soul sends a tone, a note, you do not need to hear it, or you may, that begins to resonate with the jewel in the center of your heart, so that your heart center and the jewel in its middle begins to open even more. Until you are fully enlightened, some of the petals enclose the jewel in the middle and are not yet fully open. Picture your soul’s light beginning to stimulate that jewel,
and the jewel in the middle of your heart centers begins to become more active, responding to your soul, and begins to send out energy that unfolds some of the petals that have been closed.

Your heart center is becoming radiant with light and love, as if it is a miniature sun pulsating with energy, becoming more and more radiant, sending out rays of nurturing, warming light to all energies about you. Feel yourself growing more and more radiant, more open.

As you sense your heart center becoming radiant like a sun, imagine right below it in an area slightly above your navel is another center called your solar plexus center. This center is like a receiving station that picks up information about the energies that exist in the physical world around you. It registers thoughts and feelings coming from
other people, mass thoughts, and even energies in the animal and plant kingdom. You can transform your ability to stay calm and centered no matter what energy you are around by transforming and lifting solar plexus energy into your heart center. The
solar plexus center is the center of emotions, desires, attachments. You can transform situations and emotions and energies simply by lifting them from your solar plexus center into your heart center.

You might begin to practice by thinking of an emotion you have had today that you would like to transform. Imagine that this emotion is in your solar plexus center. Now imagine that this emotion is like a flame of bright light in your solar plexus center, and that it is beginning to reach upward into your heart center. Like a flame that disappears in the light of the sun, this emotion disappears in the light of your heart’s radiance.

You can do this in a quick moment whenever you find an emotional energy that you do not like. Lift it into your heart center and let it be absorbed in the radiance and light of your heart center.

Think of another area that you might feel pain or struggle. See this simply as energy, that it resides in your solar plexus center, that is waiting to be released and transformed into the higher vibration of your heart’s love. Let that small flame of energy that represents struggle in this area lift up into your heart, and be absorbed
into the sun of your heart.

Now think of a feeling you have had that stands in the way of loving yourself. Let that feeling come up from your solar plexus into your heart center to be dissolved in the radiance of your heart.

Think of something you have doubt about, or fear. Perhaps fear of change, fear of the unknown, whatever fear comes into your mind that might keep you from wanting to move forward and expressing your true power and your true Self. As it comes up, move that energy from your solar plexus center, where it originates, into your heart
center. Each thought, each feeling as it comes up, move it into your heart center.

If you are in a power struggle where you feel that you and another are relating to each other through the solar plexus center, feeling as if you need to transform this energy, let this connection that is in your solar plexus center be lifted to your heart center, into the energy of love.

Use this throughout the day as a simple way to transform the energies of the solar plexus center into the serenity of love, so that you can find that center of your being where the alignment occurs with every level, from your personality, to your soul, to your Divine Self.