The Journal of a Spiritual Seeker, Stepping into True Compassion
Hello Seekers,
The subject of true compassion, which Ahramein raises here, is a compelling one because for some of us it might at first feel counterintuitive. Allowing other people the space to suffer can on the surface seem cold and detached. But it doesn’t need to be.
Recognizing where and how we can help versus when and how it would be out of balance to try is a dynamic energetic interface, and we must be constantly in communication with our own higher aspects of Self to navigate the nuances. The other key to this is really and truly holding the other person’s best and highest good in our hearts as we walk these lines, while also being unwilling to abandon what is in our own best and highest good. True compassion provides space for us and for the people around us, and allows us to hold that space together in increasingly more balanced ways.
This has been a hard lesson for me. I would have always thought myself to be a compassionate person, but I think that I was mistakenly attributing the qualities of having a somewhat empathic nature as being compassionate. The two are not the same. Because a part of my nature is empathic, or at least highly-sensitive to the energies around me, I had a sense of how and what other people were feeling. When they were feeling bad, I wanted them to feel better and would try my hardest to do and say things that would achieve this result. I wanted to fix the people around me so they wouldn’t have to suffer. When they felt better, I would feel better, too.
Because I also grew up with some codependent tendencies, I felt like it was actually my job to make things better for the people around me. And because I came in with some energetic imbalances that were reinforced by my early experiences, I felt the need to please everyone, and determined my own worth based on how successful I was in this endeavor. And since some of the most influential people in my life had their own set of circumstances that meant they were never ever going to be pleased about anything ever … well, I got pretty twisted up inside. What an amazing lesson this has been.
Existing in true compassion allows for us to have boundaries, and without abandoning those boundaries, to hold space for others. We can be there for them and with them without taking on their suffering as our own. We can be aware of the ways in which our own suffering has taught us many of the things we’ve learned, and trust that within their suffering is whatever lesson they’re in the process of learning, too. We can listen and perhaps help provide clarity and context when they need it, and we can love them and call on the Light to help support them energetically. All in balance.
This understanding is ongoing for me, and I suspect it’s another of those life-long lessons that will reach new depths and continue to expand as I experience my life. I wonder if that is universally true for all of us — maybe no matter who we are, we can all continue to experience new levels of compassion all the time.
Holding space for you in Light and Love,
Jodie
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Message from Ahramein, Jan. 10, 2018
Allowing others the space to suffer is itself a function of compassion, for in suffering , they learn and grow.
So too is suffering a means of transmutation, so as people experience suffering, they are neutralizing the electromagnetic charges they carry from this life and others.
You must allow space for this function to take place, for it is essential in this place where you currently reside.
You’ve too often tried to protect others from suffering without understanding the necessity of it in this place and space, thereby preventing them from growing and evolving in the ways they need to. In blocking this process, you’ve also caused more suffering and pain for you were preventing the flow from happening and creating more electromagnetic charges along the way.
Step out of this pattern and into TRUE compassion whereby you are open and loving enough to allow others the space they need to grow and evolve through their experiences.
You have seen that this is true. You know too that you are moving beyond this place, and these functions are no longer necessary for you. So you will be able to hold space for others now in a way you weren’t able to before, because your energy was caught up dealing with your own karma. Now, you are moving beyond your karma, for electromagnetic transmutation can happen now as an automatic function of your continuous raising of vibration.
Not to say that issues with other individuals might not still arise if need be, but for now, you can focus on raising your frequencies, raising your awareness and continuously living in the flow. And that work will neutralize your field.
Move forward now, allowing people the space they need and continuing in the work you are here to do. Drop everything else — worry, doubt, self-recrimination. Just allow yourself to be in each moment and the rest will follow.
Be guided in all things by Diving Light/Source/God and the questions you have will be answered as you need them to be answered.
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Exercise: Begin each exercise by grounding and protecting. For more information on how, see this post.
Make a list of a couple of times in your life you learned something as a result of your own suffering or from something extremely challenging that happened in your life. Spend a few minutes in mediation after, reflecting on the energy of these circumstances. How were you moved by the events or challenges? How did that movement flow into what was next for you? How were you then shaped by what happened? What gratitude can you find for how you changed as a result? What aspects of yourself are you glad to have developed through these challenges? Hold space for all the versions of yourself that have existed through all these different circumstances, being compassionate with yourself.
Next, think of a situation someone you love is in that is extremely challenging for them. Visualize them in a golden white or a rose-colored ball of light. Ask the Light to provide them with the most harmonious, most balanced and most perfectly healing frequencies of Light for them in this moment and in every moment. Allow yourself to feel whatever you feel for them around this circumstance. Hold space for the love between the two of you. And then ask Arch Angel Michael to send them a blessing and a healing, and ask him to cut any and all cords between the two of you. Trust that any and all connections that are in the best and highest good of you both will be maintained. Ask Arch Angels Uriel, Rafael and Gabriel to fill in any and all places and spaces where those cords existed to be filled in with golden white and rose-colored light. Each time you feel yourself wishing there was something you could do, ask Arch Angel Michael to surround that person in light, love, peace, healing and protection.
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A brief note: This journal and its exercises are simply a means to help you find your own flow. There is no pressure to follow them exactly or read each and every one. It does not need to be read in order either, so if you miss one, don’t feel like you’ve failed or fallen behind. These messages are here to hold space for you as you discover and evolve within your spiritual practice.
This is the first volume of The Journal of the Spiritual Seeker, and I’m presenting it here on The Devic Connection website, serialized over the last 10 weeks of 2020, with weekly roundups via email (you can sign up in the box at the bottom of this page if you’d like to receive these.) If you’ve just arrived here and would like to start from the beginning, here’s the link to the first post.
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We all need help with clarity …
Sometimes, things come up in the healing journey that we can’t quite manage by ourselves. I’m fortunate to have people I can call on to help me gain that clarity. And I’m also in therapy, which helps immensely with processing the psychological and mental health issues. If you find yourself getting stuck on this journey or having something come up that you need some guidance on, please do seek help. An internet search can help you find a qualified mental health practitioner for those psychological issues. And if you’re looking for help from the Light on the spiritual questions, I have some availability for readings. (Read more about that here.)