RoguesAngels: Compassion for Life by Philip W Mason

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Compassion for Life by Philip W Mason

Please welcome Philip W Mason author of Compassion for Life

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Compassion for Life

by Philip W Mason

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GENRE: Self-Help, Non-fiction {as in (Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth)}

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BLURB:

During life, everyone experiences difficult struggles and pain. The relief from this pain can come when either we recognize that we are only human and make an appropriate change for the better or when another person helps us recognize it and encourages us to make that change. These two phenomena are called self compassion and compassion and are great powers that people possess to make life better. They are the first steps to take towards a healing process that results in one being able to enjoy and share all the wondrous experiences that life has to offer.

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EXCERPT:

Now I’d like to focus on one’s own mental pain and how we can achieve reduced suffering by increasing self-compassion. An example of the mental pain could be that caused by the death of a loved one. We can now use one of the equations already discussed, one which relates suffering to mental pain and self-compassion:

Suffering = Mental pain / Self-compassion

to better understand how suffering—which is always mental—relates to mental pain and self-compassion. If pain is relatively large, say that from the death of a young child as opposed to that of an older person, then the suffering will also be large. If the old person were to die instead, then the pain would be smaller, and the suffering would be smaller. Suffering of a person is the actual emotional response to the presence of pain. Suffering, according to the equation, also depends on the amount of self-compassion involved. Self-compassion is the emotion of feeling the urge to have lower suffering for oneself. From that urge, what we choose to say to ourselves in response to our pain will determine if our suffering is increased or decreased. In the case of the young child dying, if we tell ourselves positive things our suffering would be reduced. Examples could be: “I was blessed to be able to enjoy my time with him while he was alive.” –or– “I will set up a memorial fund to honor his life.” If however, we say nothing at all, then suffering will stay the same. If we tell ourselves negative things, then our suffering will actually increase. An example of this could be: “I’ll never get over this loss.” –or– “This is my fault somehow.”

Here are some other examples of things that we can say to ourselves when we have self-compassion in order to reduce our suffering.

• I am only human and doing the best that I can.

• I am only human, and I made a mistake. I will now move forward to make things better.

• I am only human, and I need help.

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