Open to Compassion for Self

When you experience compassion, you know it.
You don't think it as much as you feel it.
It can be so strong it is palpable.
With some individuals, you can sense it even through an email, a note, a card.
Sometimes it is the voice that communicates the compassion.
Sometimes it is the hand, the touch of compassion that you experience.
Sometimes it is the eyes...eyes of a knowing connection that speak the message of compassion.
And then again, sometimes it is an action.
All of these responses come from love.
Love that is so pure, that it wants nothing in return.
It is a gift from the giver to the heart of the other.
It carries an intention of healing and support.
It can bring the energy of recovery, of renewal, of new hope.
It can assure.
It can inspire.
It can release and create freedom.
It can allow greater space to 'be'.
It has the capacity to greatly empower and embolden.
It has the power to transform and move mountains.
It can re-create the superhero in another.

But one of the greatest acts of compassion is the compassion towards self.
Why is that so hard?
Why is that so rarely offered?
Certainly it is not because it is undeserved.
When one reviews one's life, a little compassion might have made the difference between a great struggle and an easy recovery.
Compassion creates a sacred space and sanctuary in which to self heal.
It carries the message that all is well.
Compassion reminds us of our own wholeness.
Compassion for self is part of caring for self.
It cannot be freely given unless it given to self first.

Receive the gift that awaits the hungry,
thirsty soul in need of just a little sweet compassion.