Self-awareness and compassion are interwoven because, when you understand how your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors affect you and others, you’re able to treat people well and build a better world. Here are some characteristics of compassion:
- Consciousness of another person’s distress and the desire to help them.
- The ability to understand when someone else is suffering, hurt, struggling, or feeling down.
- The desire to help others without any need to be rewarded.
- The ability to step outside your immediate needs and tend to someone else’s.
- Consciousness that all kinds of people fall on hard times or have difficulties and need help.
- Helping people without judging them.
A big part of self-awareness is strengthening your ability to see beyond your own horizons and feel compassion for others; which means that you’ve become comfortable and healthy enough as a person that you can feel other people’s pain and try to help them with it.
A world without compassion is one where nobody helps anyone and everyone just worries about their own desires and needs. As you increase your self-awareness you will find that your compassion increases and you’re better able to tend to others because you’re healthier. What will you do to increase your self-awareness and practice compassion?
Cheers,
Guy
