How to develop Your Compassion

When you develop your compassion, you build your perspective. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. To be compassion you have to be willing to put yourself in another’s shoes. i.e. “You can’t judge a man/woman unless you have walk in their shoes for a mile.” By putting yourself in someone’s shoes, this takes the focus off yourself and focus you on how it feels to be in another’s situation or predicament. This will enable you to feel love for the other person. Acknowledging that another’s problem, their pain, frustrations, and heartache, are every bit a real as your own. By recognizing what another is experiencing and trying to offer some assistance, you open your heart and greatly improve your own sense of gratitude.

With practice you can improve your compassion. To do this you must encompass intention and action. Intention allows you to open your heart to another, while expanding what and who matters from you to others. Intention needs to be couple with action, how can you assist or be of service to another. You may share tangible or intangible service to another. i.e. Assist the sick, support a cause, or just simply share a greeting with another. It’s not the magnitude but the quality. It is more important to do than what you do. Just do something to make a difference that will have a lasting impact on another’s life because you have walked in their shoes.