COMPASSIONATE AWARENESS PRACTICE
Compassionate awareness is paying attention with your heart not your head. Paying attention is being aware of the thoughts and feelings you are experiencing in the moment. Experience is our greatest teacher if we but slow down and take notice of what’s going on. People, especially our children, push our buttons and we habitually react. Our buttons it turns out are unresolved emotional issues from our early childhood conditioning. Childhood conditioning teaches us what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is bad, what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. We are conditioned to think what we think, feel what we feel, see what we see, and hear what we hear. We have all been conditioned with other people’s beliefs.
Compassionate awareness is seeing through the eyes of the heart. The heart has no ego and no agenda. When you look at life’s moments with a sense of awe and curiosity you are open to ponder what was and what is true for you now.
Compassionate awareness has no judgment or opinion. Compassionate awareness is accepting what is, free of resistance.
I encourage you to adopt of attitude of play, lighten up on yourself, and appreciate the world around you for the miracle it is.
