Why Compassion is So Important
Being compassionate is important because we live in a very busy world.
Everywhere you go, you hear about either:
being more
doing more
buying more
With our family members either going to school or working, the new normal is “busy.”
Self-care can fall to the bottom of our list.
Spending time with others is very minimal at best, and worst of all
Compassion becomes a luxury and not a necessity.
Learning The Benefits of Having Compassion
Compassion boosts your health and well-being. There are significant benefits to taking on being compassionate both for yourself and, equally as necessary, for others:
Having Compassion For Yourself
- Feel good about yourself.
- Exude more confidence.
- Have a softer, gentler, kinder demeanor.
- Attract more positive people, experiences, and situations in your life.
- Health improvement brings more energy and better sleep
Having Compassion For Others
- You can contribute to others
- You can encourage them they are not doing life alone.
- Other people can reap the rewards of feeling understood, related, and is full of hope.
- Others who are also kind and compassionate will come near you.
You Are a Role Model
- For others about how to treat you and themselves.
- On how they can improve their relationships.
- You can create a ripple of compassion that positively affects many people.
How Being More Compassionate Changes Your Life
Being compassionate to yourself is a new way of bringing small and significant improvements to areas of your life. When you are compassionate to yourself, you will reap the benefits and the rewards.
Self-Compassion allows you to take care of your needs by being gentle and kind to yourself when you experience falling short.
As humans
we all fall short
we do not reach our goal
the actions of others might impact us negatively
We might make mistakes
Forget things
Lose our cool
Overreact
Understanding that we are human allows us
to be kind
compassionate
ask ourselves what we learned
Being compassionate is a better use of energy.
We can take time to self-soothe.
Self-soothing can have many great benefits.
We can move forward more quickly.
Not get stuck on our mistakes.
We can
- learn
- grow
- keep moving forward
When we show compassion to ourselves, we train others to do the same. If we beat ourselves up, we are permitting others to do the same. When we offer ourselves compassion, we model how we expect others to treat us, as well.
The Impact of Compassion on Your Relationships
We are all interested in making our lives better.
What about the impact compassion has on our relationships?
Taking responsibility for our actions
Navigate many relationships within
- families
- work
- socially
Showing compassion offers us the chance to contribute to someone else’s life. People want to know we understand and that we will be there for them. Loving and supporting others is our encouragement for helping them through the rough times of their life. What could be better than being a contributing factor to changing someone else’s life? Now that is very powerful!
When we give compassion to others, we feel good about ourselves and make a difference to them. We both win.
These are a few reasons why being compassionate is so important.
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