Compassion

Compassion

I’ve written a lot over the years about the importance of discovering love in your life. First, the love for yourself, as everything in this world begins with where we are at and what we manifest. But in times like these I think we need to go beyond love, we need to find true compassion.

So what is compassion? The dictionary describes compassion as: “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.”

Today with everything going on in the world it’s easy to fall into the trap of negativity. To “pick” on others to give us some sense of power because we have no control over our own lives. But I propose doing the exact opposite, discovering compassion for yourself and your fellow human being.

We live in a world that is broken because we have lost the ability to talk. We have more access to information and the ability to communicate than we have ever had before but we use these resources in limited ways, we only read what we agree with and communicate to be right, not to listen and learn.

This has caused the world to become fractured, each of us only allowing ourselves to be with the people we agree with. Unfortunately this sets us back to the time of early man where most communication was not possible. So, we went by our perception, our gut or our belief that a tribe, a person, a country was a threat to who we truly are.

Why should we go backwards? Why can’t we use technology to grow together? I would suggest it is because of our egos,  because we have moved away from the ability to listen, truly listen and we have decided that everything outside of what we believe is not only wrong, but it is a threat to our actual being.

This could not be further from the truth, but our ego wants to be right, our ego likes the false sense of control, and our ego decides that we are all that truly matters! Love and compassion are the gateway beyond the ego. Only by truly caring for another can we get to a place where we are willing to open our mind and our hearts to what is truly possible.

Find compassion in your life, discover what it is like to be more than yourself, not to satisfy your ego of being the great person you are, but to open your heart to someone that really needs your help and right now there are millions that do. Let go of the anger, be willing to listen, and be willing to open your mind to other possibilities.

Only by continuing to grow to do we learn to be selfless. 

Till next time,

Bill

Quote of the day: “Compassion brings us beyond ourselves to feel and care for another. Today, it is more important than ever to find compassion; be the selfless person you were meant to be.”

The Fear of Change

The Fear of Change

Let’s face it, the world has changed forever and things will never go back to the way they used to be. Certainly, some things will feel close to the same but with everything we’re going through, things will be different going forward.

So why do we fear change so much? I wrote many years ago Thinking through Change were I addressed some of the reason we fear change. But, in today’s unlimited environment, where we are deluged by information from sources all across the world, fear is perpetuated even more.

Often in this environment we actually choose fear because we don’t know how to cope with everything that is happening around us. But, that choice is always the wrong choice. When we choose fear, we choose to live in a heightened state that our bodies cannot maintain for an extended period of time.

So, we become fatigued, we become restless and we become easily agitated. Is this the life you really want to live? I seriously doubt it. So, how do we change our behavior? I personally limit my exposure to the news. I watch for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening, that is it.

I also choose to scroll past many of the social media posts I see. The ones I do choose to interact with are from proven sources and not conjecture created just to keep you in the state of fear. Fear is a great way to control people. Why? Because it feeds on itself, it needs more information because it (fear) believes that the only way to lessen the fear is to learn more and more about it. The problem is, in today’s environment much of what you read is not fact and is actually out there to encourage you to stay in fear.

The next way I move past fear is to do things that make me happy; take a walk in the outdoors, listen to music, read, or just take some time to be quiet. Once you begin the pattern of disconnecting from the sources of the fear, your body will begin to return to a normal state and you will feel much better.

Yes, the world is changing but instead of fearing that change, embrace it and make it the best that it can be. We will come through this together and we will live our lives again, stop the fear, be the change.

Till next time,                                                                                                                                           

Bill

Quote of the day: “Only by accepting the change in our lives can we begin to rediscover the lives we truly seek.”