Happy March Friend!
Don’t you love how a simple shift in perception can change your life dramatically?
That’s what happened for me one day as I realized how easy it is to slip into empathy, when we what we are really needing is compassion.
And there is a difference!
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Now, you won’t find a significant difference in their definitions if you check a dictionary, but the qualities of these two energies are not exactly the same.
When you are in empathy, you are able to feel what another person is feeling, either physically, or emotionally (or both).
If someone is experiencing joy or happiness, you feel it. The same is true with pain or discomfort.
Empathy is very useful if you want to comprehend the experience someone is having, or if you want an individual to know you truly “get” them.
My elder taught me that empathy is helpful for understanding, but not to linger in it. As you may know, it can be a bit challenging to let go of it, once you feel it.
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It’s tricky to let go of your empathy until you understand the true nature of compassion.
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When I was about to Hold something very painful, I noticed I had a tendency to bond with the pain. As you can imagine, that didn’t work very well, because I was lingering in the pain.
So before I began Holding the pain, I started going deeper into love. In a more expansive state of compassionate love, I was able to Hold the pain, without any suffering.
The compassion became the container that made it safe to Hold whatever was hurting.
Throughout the meditation, the greater the pain, the deeper I went into compassionate love.
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It was the loving nature of compassion that allowed me to Hold pain without suffering.
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Because I was more focused on the love, while being accepting of the emotional pain, the discomfort dissipated much more quickly.
Throughout the month of March, in our weekend newsletters, we’ll be exploring how empathy and compassion can help or hinder your acts of creation.
Please share your own insights about empathy and compassion at our non-profit website, Sacred Feminine Awakening, where we are exploring the nature of compassion—one of the beautiful qualities of yin energy.
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Holding you in your discoveries with compassion,
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Enjoy These Free Resources for Deepening Your Compassion
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Holding Meditation - Written Form
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Some of you have asked for the Holding meditation in written form so you can more easily adapt it to your own needs. So here it is:
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