The Alchemy of Compassion

Once we start to recognise that we all want the same things, that we all experience emotions such as fear, sadness, love, joy and happiness it's all a little clearer. We all want to be happy and feel at ease. So much time is spent avoiding suffering and sadness but unfortunately these are inevitable at times in our lives. What changes our response to difficult emotions is our awareness. Avoidance of engaging with feelings often makes them tougher to deal with and they appear stronger. We also start to fear the experience of the emotion itself. Generally emotions don't dissipate until we allow ourselves to feel them. If we don't allow feelings and emotions they can get a little trapped in the body, maybe causing aches and pains. Emotions create an energy, a vibration, and so does compassion. Compassion supports the transformation of emotion. Changing it from something difficult to a wisdom.

The fear of allowing ourselves to fully embrace emotions is more often than not greater than the experience itself. We have trained ourselves to avoid pain and suffering, and this has been important to our survival. However, to stay well we need to feel things, and in the rawest sense. Stepping out of the analytical mind and into the feeling body. Once we explore the feeling or emotion in the body it naturally shifts and changes. The tension often releases quite significantly and aches and pains can change and move. Holding on to emotions creates a lot of discomfort, both mentally and physically. The process of transforming held emotion or discomfort can be supported by additional therapies like healing, acupuncture and talking therapy.



Starting to embrace emotions (during suitable periods throughout the day of course) can be supported greatly with compassion. Love and compassion change everything. Developing a sense of compassion towards ourselves and others brings strength and courage to all that we do. Love isn't a soft emotion, love is strong, and courageous. Perspective, view of the world and the way we approach everything changes when we view things with a sense of trust and compassion. Difficulties and trying times are viewed differently. That's not to say we don't experience sadness and heartache but the experience is different and the wisdom of the situation changes. Love and compassion also enable us to grow and develop, becoming less focused just upon ourselves and more aware of others, our surroundings and experiences. Developing compassion enables greater strength to move through emotion and avoid getting stuck by fear.

Compassion is there, in all of us, we don't need to create it, just cultivate it. Engaging with compassion meditations is an excellent way to bring more your way. Just sitting and wishing those around you well, visualising others happiness as well as your own is the start of a greater experience of compassion. A hand on the heart and visualising the connection that you share with people around you brings so much ease to the mind and body. You start to appreciate things at a greater level, feel appreciation in a deeper sense. Courage and determination increase and any barriers you built up in your mind towards people and the goals you want to achieve, shift and change. Your sense of connection to everything and all will unfold. Something so simple and gentle gives powerful and beautiful results. We spend so much time and money on the hunt for happiness, it's right there in all of us, it just needs to be uncovered.

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