A word about compassion and finding our strength through sensitivity.
Most people regard being sensitive as a terrible thing.
They don’t want to feel what they are feeling because, if we admit it, it probably hurts.
And we want to be stronger than that.
We don’t want to admit to ourselves or others that we can’t handle it.
So we brush it off…
We stuff it down…
We set it aside…
We ignore it…
However, by doing this you are only hurting yourself and those around you.
You’ve missed the opportunity to be self compassionate. And feel how you really feel.
And then you project, then you blame, then you deny, then you continue the cycle.
The ONLY way to release this pain is to feel it. And if you give yourself just an ounce of compassion as you do, it really won’t be that bad.
And when you extend this compassion to yourself, you’ll be more than willing to extend it to others.
There is nothing in this world that does not deserve some compassion.
Finding this place inside of you is not a place of weakness… it’s the absolute opposite. It is your place of strength.
It takes a lot of courage to sit with someone while they are hurting. It takes a lot of courage to sit with someone in their joy.
We have the tendency to want to shut off our emotions and others. But we are not emotionless machines. We are humans. And we experience a very broad range of emotions and experiences.
How we experience something is also not how everyone else is experiencing it. And if we just took a little bit of time to honour our own feelings and others. We’d start to understand there’s a much deeper connection in compassion and being sensitive than there is in brushing it all under the rug.
These connections will start to develop into amazing relationships. Ones where you’ll both feel honoured and heard. And this is where we find trust and respect.
Trust and respect are two of the biggest tools of empowerment. They hold great strength and power when we can find these places inside of ourselves. They create connection. A relationship where both are equal participants and bring both their strengths and weaknesses forth and are all the better for it.
They find worthiness and wholeness just through finding that doorway of compassion that says “even if… you are still enough”