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Inner
Tip No. 7
Develop a sense of
compassion
to increase your resilience.
If you can open and expand your heart
– even just a little – to the true humanness of others, it can transform your
attitude toward yourself as well.
Cultivating a sense
of compassion will expand your horizons and connect you to a larger concept of yourself.
This in turn will ease your own stress and anxiety, and allow you to have a greater
range of choices in how you respond to any situation.
"The practice [of compassion] works by
reconnecting us to a larger field of relationship and a vaster sense of ourselves. Often
we get out of balance and experience pain and suffering because we’ve become fixated
and overly preoccupied with our own contracted, narrow view. When we are physically,
emotionally, or mentally suffering, there is a strong tendency to withdraw from the world
and to implode into a very self-centered and self-protective state. We lose perspective of
the larger picture and identify too much with the melodramas we are immersed in at the
time. This contraction cuts us off from the very healing and balancing energies that we
are actually most in need of."
"The practice of … [compassion] meditation helps build our capacity to
transform every experience we may have into an affirmation of loving concern for
ourselves, others, and the world. The beautiful paradox is that in opening our hearts
beyond our own limited sense of well being, we also receive benefit ourselves! In the very
moment when we generate and extend a genuine energy-wave of loving concern for the well
being and happiness of others, our compassionate attitude produces an immediate effect of
healing and blessing within our own minds and bodies at the same time."
