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Compassion: What It Really Means |
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By Anne Brewer
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What is compassion? Why is it so vital for us to embody? And why is it so difficult for us to hold constant?
Let's begin with the definition of compassion because it is frequently confused with empathy, and these are very different emotional states. Compassion is one of the highest of the heart-generated energies because it is equivalent to pure, unadulterated love. Compassion is tender, patient, warm, sensitive, caring, and elegant in the grace in which it is conveyed. Although compassion contains a great deal of heart feeling, it is actually neutral rather than involving. By that, I mean that true compassion is about embodying the energy described but not being consumed by it or projecting it onto others. Compassion enables us to be in another person's place without shouldering the load of that person. Compassion is when Divine Creator enfolds us in its love while leaving us free to experience what we have created. This is unlike empathy, which is a very interactive heart feeling and carries an entrapment link between empathiz-er and empathiz-ee.
Empathy replicates the emotions that another person feels. As a gesture of support, we evoke the emotional menu that another person is experiencing, and the emotions on that menu are usually unpleasant. We empathize with someone's condition because we hold the mistaken belief that empathy is a supportive action. Untrue! In fact, empathy is actually ego-driven and, to some extent, addictive. It is ego-driven because it feeds our need to feel like "good" human beings who feel the suffering of others, hence we are caring rather than heartless. It is addictive because it makes us feel more alive when we open our heart to another's pain and suffering, i.e., we have vicarious pleasure in supporting another from a position of strength while not feeling dumped on by the negative situation that is not ours. However, we do ourselves and others an injustice through empathetic reactions. Essentially, we take on their "stuff" and feed our ego at the same time because we good about being a supportive friend. We even empathize with strangers, for example, an abused child or a homeless person, because we see ourselves as feeling people who are supportive citizens. There are even slogans to promote active empathy such as "show how much you care", "my brother's keeper", or "give until it hurts".
True caring comes in the form of compassion. Compassion holds the energy of caring without the load of negative emotions or ego involvement of the "we care" mentality. It enables us to carry high heart feelings which, in turn, renders this positive energy available to all. In other words. We can be stewards of caring. Then those who are not yet able to employ compassion can witness how balanced caring people act. They can watch compassionate people offer love and emotional connectivity to those who need it without allowing an ego involvement that drags the interaction down to an emotionally messy level. The stewardship of caring presents an improved model to those who tend to get bogged down. This enables them to aspire to a balanced position of caring for themselves.
We are programmed with messages that convince us that empathy is a form on compassion. In order to help us move beyond the ego and responsibility burdens of empathy and transcend to the lighter and more balanced energy of compassion, the following prayer request has been created for use. As always with my prayer requests, prior to enacting it, you will need to instruct your subconscious to create a "surcharge" of vital force (i.e., mana, prana, chi). Then breathe deeply six times using the following pattern: inhale slowly to the count of four, hold to the count of four, exhale slowly to the count of eight. This is an ancient Polynesian or Kahuna breathing pattern that generates a great deal of vital force. Please note that vital force is not the breath itself. It is the combustion of energy that occurs when oxygen enters the body and interacts with the stored fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in your cells (adenosinediphosphate combusts into adenosinetriphosphate). Command your subconscious to send the vital force to your spiritual committee and High Self to be used to enact the following request. Then, read the request aloud.
· Please conduct all of the following requests on (STATE YOUR NAME) or any version of (NAME) for all inter-dimensional levels, all energy bodies into infinity, all aspects of the soul, all parallel and multidimensional lives, all past/present/future lives in all concepts of time, on all subconscious levels of thought, throughout eternity. Remove all trauma resulting from the following conditions, transmuting it to love, while retaining all learning experiences free of trauma. Ensure the transition from the old to the new are tailored to what is appropriate for me, and it is easy and expeditious.
· Take an inventory of all subconscious programs that promote empathy in the form of evolvement, good citizenship, business or personal partner, good human being, caring person, and any other programs that valued empathy as a high heart energy. Inventory every soul experience where these programs were created and remove them from my subconscious value system, replacing the empathy programs with new programs that instate compassion as the intended objective and resulting energy.
· Remove all cords that connect me to other animals, vegetables, or minerals and people, places, or things through an empathetic energy. Send Divine love and light where cords have been removed, fueled by the energy of compassion, so each can help themselves. Heal my subtle bodies and soul memory system of any backflow from those corded programs, reseating and reharmonizing me to my optimal operating state.
· Heal my soul memory system of any guilt created by feelings of failing others as an empathetic resource. Replace the guilt with compassionate love that is always present above, below, around, about, and inside me. Evoke a knowing in me that all is right in everyone's world at all times, including mine, and that my compassion will more than sufficiently provide others with what they need.
· Add any necessary guides and teachers to assist me in operating with compassion rather than empathy. Only employ those who are of the light and are in my highest good. Delete any guides and teachers that no longer serve me in my goal to acheive the light in all that I think, feel, say, and do.
· Thank you, thank you, thank you, so let it be.
Remember, neutrality does not mean that you do not care. It means that you are balanced in your compassionate, yet neutral, approach to a situation. Be kindhearted, be warm, be friendly, but draw the line at offering your shoulders to carry someone else's load or you move downward when assisting rather than offering them an upward place to which to aspire.
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Anne Brewer,
Healer, Author and Teacher.
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Anne Brewer is an international author and teacher. She has developed a process for reading the Akashic (soul) records and clearing unresolved issues from past and present soul experiences.
She is also known for her 12-strand DNA activation work as recorded in her book, The Power of Twelve. Her other books, Breaking Free to Health, Wealth, and Happiness and Crystal Broadcasting, outline some of the healing modalities she uses with her clients.
Contact her office at:
913-722-5498
for information on books, tapes, crystals, consultations, and seminars.
Visit her website at:
www.annebrewer.com
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