Any interaction you have with another person, carefully examined, will reveal how well you are embodying your true self.
By noticing the feelings that come up when you are in the company of another, you are given a unique opportunity to take a closer look at yourself. Until now, your tendency may have been to focus on what he is doing wrong, what she is doing to make you feel badly about yourself. As long as you are in relationship, the invitation will consistently be offered to stop pointing the finger at someone else for making you feel less-than-wonderful and look in the mirror of your own perceptions. Pointing a compassionate finger back at yourself is a powerful invitation to let go of false understandings and release them to love.
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Kindness toward yourself is an act of befriending. Kindness toward others is an act of altruism. Combine both and you'll cultivate a heart of compassion. Benevolence will be yours. By doing "the good work of self," you will create a life for yourself that is happier, healthier, more love-filled. It is this "inner progress" that can motivate you because it naturally follows that if you tend well to your inner landscape, constructive changes will take place in your outer world too. "As within, so without," the sages of the past have told us. And it's true. Whatever progress we make in our minds and hearts cannot help but be reflected throughout society. © 2024, Jan Lundy A helpful resource for learning to befriend yourself is my book, Living Gently with Myself. It's available for immediate download here.
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Dr. Janice Lynne Lundy (PsyD, DMin, MPC)
is The Gerald May Professor of Spiritual Direction & Counseling at the Graduate Theological Foundation. She is an interspiritual director/mentor, educator and counselor who has been pointing people back toward the Sacred for nearly thirty years. Connect |