Compassion

   You experience compassion once you have experienced fear, anger, sadness and joy. When these emotions form part of your everyday life, you become more aware of them in other people and begin to understand other people’s motives.

   Also, because you are no longer in conflict with yourself (because you have learned to express your emotions as they occur), you are no longer tempted to threaten (consciously or unconsciously) the vital space of others. In so doing, you give them the opportunity to stop being invaded by their fears.

   In short, you are now able to give people exactly what they need, which automatically opens the door to success and prosperity for you (remember this, it is crucial!)

   What is compassion? Compassion is not always a caress, it is sometimes a slap in the face. Compassion is being able to feel what another person is feeling while remaining sufficiently detached to understand their needs and to know what to do or say.

   Although you can experience another person’s pain, joy or fear, they are not your emotions. They are rather the emotions that "connect" you to that person. If you genuinely feel compassion for someone who is afraid, you will no be afraid. You will feel their fear and be able to establish a relationship with that person.

   People usually form a false idea of compassion: they think being compassionate means feeling devastated for other people. Being compassionate means giving the other person what they need, which is not always the same as giving them what they want.

   For example, imagine a man who is very sad. Compassion does not mean persuading him to stop feeling sad and pretend that everything is all right (if everything were all right, he wouldn’t be sad!). It means feeling the depth of his sadness and telling him that he has to "pass through it" and not try to skirt round or avoid it, and possibly cry with him or smile at him to show you have recognised his sadness.

   Many people think it would deplete their supply of energy to give something of themselves. In fact, it obviously requires a great deal more energy to maintain an attitude of cold indifference than to simply be guided by your emotions.

   The mistake is to equate emotional energy with fuel in the sense that the more you use it or make a gift of it, the less you have.

   Quite the opposite! This energy is not a commodity that diminishes with use. Like the blood in your veins, it needs to flow, to be used in order to regenerate and keep you healthy. You don’t save anything by accumulating emotional energy within you since it is ultimately harmful for the organism.

   Recent psychological studies in fact indicate that being kind to others has definite physiological advantages: these gestures that come from deep within your heart constitute a tonic and natural form of release for the body.

   It essential to be able to help those close to you (your partner, children, friends) to express their emotions in an effective manner. Compassion helps others to make contact with their true emotions – their vital energy – to bring them into the open and expose the false (simulated) emotions.

   Now you understand why it is so important to express your emotions, to be able "live in your heart", since this enables you to live in the present and experience the miraculous POWER OF LOVE.

   And LOVE is universal energy, the key that opens all doors, as if by magic, including the door to success and prosperity. By opening up to the energy of love, you will automatically experience prosperity, good fortune, harmony and happiness.