Embodying Compassion

Do you ever wonder how you can be more compassionate? Sometimes we get firmly stuck in our intellect trying to reason out how. When we let the ruminating go—especially the "shoulds" of compassion—we can drop into a softer, more welcoming place within us.
 
Compassion carries a slight smile with it, so put one on. Compassion sees through lenses of love, so place an imaginary pair on your face and try to see others with kind eyes. Compassion feels through arms and hands, so reach out and touch someone. This is what is meant by embodied compassion—active gestures of connection instead of simply thinking about how.