Meeting Our Pain With Compassion

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October 5, 2020 a project of ServiceSpace Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. - Pema Chodron - Meeting Our Pain With Compassion "I'd like to explore the essential place of compassion in our lives in a very simple way. As human beings we have a conscious awareness that is open to what is. Our very nature is openness. On a feeling level this openness shows up as sensitivity, tenderness, rawness, as an exquisite receptivity and responsiveness. As a consequence of this delicacy, we are also easily hurt. Its like the softness of our skin--which is easily bruised, yet allows us to experience a wide range of subtle textures and temperatures." John Welwood shares more in this short essay on self compassion. { read more } Be The Change This week try meeting your pain with compassion. Notice if something shifts when you make room for what is-- to simply be. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier How to Strengthen Your Inner Shield On Being Alone Mary Oliver: Instructions for Living A Life Orion's 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade The Monkey and the River Love in the Time of Coronavirus DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 246,355 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More