A recent learning for me on compassion is that it can be hard and something to work at when you’re in difficult situations.

To realise we all have wounds and keep a gentle heart in times of challenge, of feeling unsafe around certain people or in general triggered from their projections whether that be conscious or unconscious on their part.

Compassion is not always comfortable.

Compassion is sure as fu”k not just a fluffy amazing cloud of bliss and love that spreads easily to all beings that walk the planet.

Compassion is not enabling.

Compassion says if you want to love all beings love yourself in such a way first.

Love all parts of yourself, and when it’s hard to be compassionate notice where and how life has hardened you and is potentially asking you to soften.

Compassion when seen in this way becomes real.
It becomes of the heart.
It invites humanity into the environment.
It has hard conversations for a healing outcome.

Compassion can forgive the unforgivable and then it also surrounds you in meeting your edges of what you will and won’t tolerate.

Compassion holds us in connection and offers resolve but it’s up to others what they do with your real heart’s offering, you can’t just offer compassion and change an outcome because not all people might be able to truly accept it.

In that case, there’s a choice to close your heart and turn away from compassion and kindness or to make it a choice and live it.

This means to be considerate in a way that is beyond the ego and the self.

Much Love

Jessie