How To Be Compassionate And How It Is Beneficial In Life
Life is not just about making a career, earning money and to think only about oneself, but it is also about understanding and helping others. The word compassion may sound idealistic but it is one of the assets that every human being should have to live a happier life. Anyone can learn to be compassionate, by being aware of life.
To be aware and be happier in life, keep reading!
About compassion
Compassion is to empathize, to be concerned, be kind and be caring for sufferings and hardships of other people. A compassionate person will go out of the way to help others may be helping a poor kid financially, a blind person to cross the road or an injured person to reach to the hospital. A compassionate person feels the moral and social responsibility to help others.
Compassion is also to understand that every person in this world is facing their own unique problem and everyone has their own experiences of pain and failures. A compassionate person can understand people and their behavior.
How to be compassionate?
You may or may never come to know what others have gone through in their past or are going through at present, however, the reality is that each and every individual is dealing with its own unique problem. Everyone is trying to make their lives better but are facing hurdles is doing so. You must be having your own challenge and others have their own.
If everyone has their own difficulty, then can we choose to be compassionate towards others? Let us understand that and have compassion, understanding, care and respect for each other.
How being compassionate is beneficial in daily life?
Among friends, colleagues or relatives it is very common to find someone's behavior strange or weird. Someone may unexpectedly be rude, loud, arrogant, get hurt or may ignore you. Sometimes it could be a close one too.
Everyone's journey of life is unique with its own unique experiences. You may not know in which conditions and the environment others are brought up, what kind of painful experiences they have been through in their life. Their journey of life have influenced and shaped them in a unique way with their own strengths and weaknesses, because of which sometimes they act in an odd way, which we find weird, but they find it suitable for them self.
A person who lacks empathy will keep wondering, get angry, get hurt or feel anxious about their behavior, but a compassionate person is aware and therefore can understand that this person might have experienced something difficult in the past, is going through some personal problem right now, have its own weakness or have a specific reason behind their strange behavior.
Therefore, a compassionate person can take a weird behavior lightly, remains calm and does not gets affected with other's behavior.
If you can develop this skill in which other's behavior does not affect you, your happiness and your peace then you have won yourself and you have become a stronger person.
Therefore, learning being compassionate is learning being happy.
Balancing compassion
Being compassionate does not mean to tolerate anyone's rude or arrogant behavior. One should protect self from negative people and should stay away from them. It only means to not get affected by someone's behavior, take it in a lighter vein and to remain calm by being aware of the probable reasons behind an unexpected behavior. And doing this is ultimately is good for you and your happiness. The best thing one can do is remain compassionate, understand people, do not waste the time in an argument and focus on things that really matter in life.
How being compassionate for a cause is beneficial in life?
There are people who are fighting for basic needs or face an unexpected misfortune in life. If you feel that you have a good life and are capable then help others to make their lives better. Helping someone needy in some way also brings happiness and proud in one’s life. By helping others, you are enriching your life as well with good karma.
Do you have any experience that you would like to share in which you have shown compassion for someone? Let me know in the comment section.
Be compassionate, understand people and be happy.
~Priya
"Be Strong Be Human"
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To be aware and be happier in life, keep reading!
Compassion is to empathize, to be concerned, be kind and be caring for sufferings and hardships of other people. A compassionate person will go out of the way to help others may be helping a poor kid financially, a blind person to cross the road or an injured person to reach to the hospital. A compassionate person feels the moral and social responsibility to help others.
Compassion is also to understand that every person in this world is facing their own unique problem and everyone has their own experiences of pain and failures. A compassionate person can understand people and their behavior.
How to be compassionate?
You may or may never come to know what others have gone through in their past or are going through at present, however, the reality is that each and every individual is dealing with its own unique problem. Everyone is trying to make their lives better but are facing hurdles is doing so. You must be having your own challenge and others have their own.
If everyone has their own difficulty, then can we choose to be compassionate towards others? Let us understand that and have compassion, understanding, care and respect for each other.
How being compassionate is beneficial in daily life?
Among friends, colleagues or relatives it is very common to find someone's behavior strange or weird. Someone may unexpectedly be rude, loud, arrogant, get hurt or may ignore you. Sometimes it could be a close one too.
Everyone's journey of life is unique with its own unique experiences. You may not know in which conditions and the environment others are brought up, what kind of painful experiences they have been through in their life. Their journey of life have influenced and shaped them in a unique way with their own strengths and weaknesses, because of which sometimes they act in an odd way, which we find weird, but they find it suitable for them self.
A person who lacks empathy will keep wondering, get angry, get hurt or feel anxious about their behavior, but a compassionate person is aware and therefore can understand that this person might have experienced something difficult in the past, is going through some personal problem right now, have its own weakness or have a specific reason behind their strange behavior.
Therefore, a compassionate person can take a weird behavior lightly, remains calm and does not gets affected with other's behavior.
If you can develop this skill in which other's behavior does not affect you, your happiness and your peace then you have won yourself and you have become a stronger person.
Therefore, learning being compassionate is learning being happy.
Balancing compassion
Being compassionate does not mean to tolerate anyone's rude or arrogant behavior. One should protect self from negative people and should stay away from them. It only means to not get affected by someone's behavior, take it in a lighter vein and to remain calm by being aware of the probable reasons behind an unexpected behavior. And doing this is ultimately is good for you and your happiness. The best thing one can do is remain compassionate, understand people, do not waste the time in an argument and focus on things that really matter in life.
How being compassionate for a cause is beneficial in life?
There are people who are fighting for basic needs or face an unexpected misfortune in life. If you feel that you have a good life and are capable then help others to make their lives better. Helping someone needy in some way also brings happiness and proud in one’s life. By helping others, you are enriching your life as well with good karma.
Do you have any experience that you would like to share in which you have shown compassion for someone? Let me know in the comment section.
Be compassionate, understand people and be happy.
~Priya
"Be Strong Be Human"
Copyright ©
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