Well, I, for one, do not want to be a ‘greedy hermit’!
And, yet, sometimes it feels greedy to just want a little time alone when there are so many demands being placed on our time and energy. How to strike a balance?
The first way to do this is to get in touch with what is going on inside you in this present moment. Asking yourself how you feel, what’s happening inside with relation to outside, is an important tool to cultivate. Oftentimes we go through our days on a sort of autopilot that keeps us from being really aware of the energies within and around us. We plow through our to-do lists, going from one project or activity to another. How many times have you said to yourself or others, ‘In a minute…’? Can you find a way to pause and be fully present to this moment NOW?
When we pause and take a breath into this moment we are connecting with our body and our own energy and there is a lot of information available to us through this connection. When we are aware, we can sense our feelings and the energies of those around us. The more you practice this skill the greater will be your awareness of these energies.
For example, if you are blithely going through your day and yet a co-worker or spouse or child is struggling with their day, do you take time to notice? Or are you so wrapped up in your own stuff that you are oblivious to that struggle? It is not a judgment against you if the answer is ‘yes’ but this could be your wake-up call that sometimes you need to come up for air and, like a submarine’s periscope, scan the horizon for what is going on around you.
Do you participate in conversations or discussions without really listening to what others are saying, verbally and non-verbally? Maybe you can start checking on yourself every so often to see where your attention has been and bring it back to connecting with those around you.
Watching your language, your tone of voice, making eye contact, your body language – all of these awarenesses can lead you to improving the connections that you have with others. With more information about what is going on with the other or others, compassion can rise up in your heart and you can offer that energy in response to what is going on. If you are clueless to what is happening around you, then you cannot connect to compassion. And you want to.
Compassion is a very high frequency energy that is important to the world today. The more we can share that energy the more the Planet can benefit. One compassionate act can also bring others along with it. The compassionate one can bring awareness to the clueless, can move the ‘greedy hermit’ into consideration of others. Compassion can be contagious! Wouldn’t you like to be the Typhoid Mary of Compassion?
Make a commitment to yourself that you are going to spread compassion this week wherever you find yourself. At a gathering, look around for the person who seems lonely or alone and chat with them. At home, look at the others in your household and really see them. Ask questions and stay interested in their answers. On the street or at the mall, try walking around smiling at people, saying, ‘Excuse me’ if you bump into them, or even if they bump into you. Ask the server at the restaurant how they are doing and listen to their answer. Spread compliments [heart-felt, please!] everywhere you go. If you are looking for something to compliment you will not be focused on finding fault.
Become more aware of others and of what is going on inside you. Awareness brings consciousness and compassion can spring from that. See what it feels like to keep yourself in this high frequency energy!
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: “Greedy Hermit or Compassionate Conscious Being” by Rosemary Bredeson
January 25, 2011 — RosemaryWell, I, for one, do not want to be a ‘greedy hermit’!
And, yet, sometimes it feels greedy to just want a little time alone when there are so many demands being placed on our time and energy. How to strike a balance?
The first way to do this is to get in touch with what is going on inside you in this present moment. Asking yourself how you feel, what’s happening inside with relation to outside, is an important tool to cultivate. Oftentimes we go through our days on a sort of autopilot that keeps us from being really aware of the energies within and around us. We plow through our to-do lists, going from one project or activity to another. How many times have you said to yourself or others, ‘In a minute…’? Can you find a way to pause and be fully present to this moment NOW?
When we pause and take a breath into this moment we are connecting with our body and our own energy and there is a lot of information available to us through this connection. When we are aware, we can sense our feelings and the energies of those around us. The more you practice this skill the greater will be your awareness of these energies.
For example, if you are blithely going through your day and yet a co-worker or spouse or child is struggling with their day, do you take time to notice? Or are you so wrapped up in your own stuff that you are oblivious to that struggle? It is not a judgment against you if the answer is ‘yes’ but this could be your wake-up call that sometimes you need to come up for air and, like a submarine’s periscope, scan the horizon for what is going on around you.
Do you participate in conversations or discussions without really listening to what others are saying, verbally and non-verbally? Maybe you can start checking on yourself every so often to see where your attention has been and bring it back to connecting with those around you.
Watching your language, your tone of voice, making eye contact, your body language – all of these awarenesses can lead you to improving the connections that you have with others. With more information about what is going on with the other or others, compassion can rise up in your heart and you can offer that energy in response to what is going on. If you are clueless to what is happening around you, then you cannot connect to compassion. And you want to.
Compassion is a very high frequency energy that is important to the world today. The more we can share that energy the more the Planet can benefit. One compassionate act can also bring others along with it. The compassionate one can bring awareness to the clueless, can move the ‘greedy hermit’ into consideration of others. Compassion can be contagious! Wouldn’t you like to be the Typhoid Mary of Compassion?
Make a commitment to yourself that you are going to spread compassion this week wherever you find yourself. At a gathering, look around for the person who seems lonely or alone and chat with them. At home, look at the others in your household and really see them. Ask questions and stay interested in their answers. On the street or at the mall, try walking around smiling at people, saying, ‘Excuse me’ if you bump into them, or even if they bump into you. Ask the server at the restaurant how they are doing and listen to their answer. Spread compliments [heart-felt, please!] everywhere you go. If you are looking for something to compliment you will not be focused on finding fault.
Become more aware of others and of what is going on inside you. Awareness brings consciousness and compassion can spring from that. See what it feels like to keep yourself in this high frequency energy!
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Please feel free to re-post this article and share it with your readers. All I ask is that you include the following information when you do: