When your loved ones seem to be less than perfect, less than what you would like them to be, what is your response? Do you open your heart and extend compassion? Do you offer help? Do you pray for them? Do you get frustrated and irritated? Do you go to blame and attack? Do you judge and withdraw? Are you disappointed because you had expectations and attachments? Do you tell them what they should have done and should not have done? There are so many options. Where do you?
I wish I could say I go straight to compassion 100% of the time, but I don’t always. Sometimes when the folks around me don’t behave the way I’d like them to, it gives me an opportunity to recognize my attachments and then do some inner healing work. If my response is less than loving then I get to open my heart to myself. That’s a good thing. That’s actually healing and beneficial.
There really are no mistakes in God’s life. There are opportunities to heal your mind and opportunities to extend Love. Which of those could possibly be a mistake?
Self-Compassion is Self-Love, and it’s a deeply healing expression of Divine Love.
When I fall down, I don’t kick myself, I love myself back up. I focus on the getting up, rather than the falling down. This practice has made all the difference in my life. It is a healing practice. It works!
And, since we’re always teaching the efficacy of our choices, why not teach Love? Since that is what you are. When we teach Love, then we’re teaching something real and lasting and healing. Everyone is always watching, let’s take advantage of the opportunity to teach something meaningful that also brings us benefit!
Retreat with me!
I’m offering a deeply healing, renewing and restoring retreat March 16 to 19 in New York. As always on my retreats we’ll have a lot of fun while we’re doing a lot of deep cleansing and clearing of old emotional and mental baggage so that we can live a much higher quality of life and be more available for LOVE. It’s such a relief to let the negative patterns and resentments, the guilt, shame and blame go! If you’d like to start your spring with real clarity and healing, come join me! Click here for details about my Masterful Living Retreat – the early bird discount EXPIRES TOMORROW – this retreat is open to all – come and bring a friend!
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