{"id":611,"date":"2010-08-05T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=611"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:37:50","slug":"how-can-i-be-more-compassionate-with-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/611-how-can-i-be-more-compassionate-with-myself","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Be More Compassionate with Myself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:<\/strong> How can I be more compassionate with myself?<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong> Have you ever seen an acorn? \u00a0They\u2019re small and hard. \u00a0If we didn\u2019t know what an acorn can become, we might think of it as useless. \u00a0So if someone said, \u201cHey, that\u2019s an oak tree you\u2019ve got there,” that might seem strange.<\/p>\n

From where your personal conditions are right now, it could be that you\u2019re in the seed state. You haven\u2019t yet transformed into the next phase of what you are becoming. \u00a0And that\u2019s what we specialize in in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness — \u00a0progressing through the human condition into the next phase of your development.<\/p>\n

Ultimately it\u2019s a spiritual progression. \u00a0We know that and we claim that, and we go after it in a very direct high-powered way. \u00a0We\u2019re going after the spiritual state of who we are in as direct and powerful way as we can in whatever ways are permitted for the highest good. \u00a0 And we influence our rate of growth, our rate of progression, by our willingness and openness to grow.<\/p>\n

If you want to harmonize and synchronize with the highest rate of growth that\u2019s available to you, there are five laws of Spirit that apply directly — Acceptance, Cooperation, Understanding, Enthusiasm and Empathy. \u00a0Your rate of spiritual progression may be different from everybody else’s, but your rate is yours. \u00a0It is perfect for you for your learning and growth as a soul. \u00a0 These five laws of Spirit are also in an alignment, like on a skeleton where the ankle bone is connected to the leg bone, leg bone is connected to the hip bone, etcetera. \u00a0There\u2019s an organization and order in them. \u00a0God\u2019s order has perfection, and the progression has perfection.<\/p>\n

The work we’re doing in MSIA may take a while, like plowing a field for the harvest. \u00a0A newly plowed field looks dead, like there\u2019s nothing growing here. \u00a0But there are seeds in there, \u00a0 and that\u2019s on purpose because the harvesting is yet to become. \u00a0In your spiritual progression, much like those seeds, you may feel like you\u2019re going into a cocoon-state for a while. \u00a0It may seem to you like, “Gee, no one\u2019s interested in me. \u00a0My life\u2019s sort of paralyzed or dead.” \u00a0But the reality is you\u2019re doing a lot of inner work. \u00a0So like the field, it\u2019s going to be thriving in a while — in the right season, in the right timing.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in a situation and you feel, \u201cIt\u2019s not comfortable. \u00a0I\u2019m not relaxed. \u00a0I\u2019m tense,” or you’re relating to life like, \u201cIt\u2019s awkward. It\u2019s a struggle,” that\u2019s your choice. \u00a0Another choice is for enthusiasm which involves trusting \u00a0yourself and God within you. \u00a0There\u2019s nothing bigger than God. \u00a0When I put myself in relation to God, I\u2019m with God and God is with me. \u00a0That\u2019s a family relationship that is ongoing. \u00a0It’s in the blood. \u00a0 God and I are in this together, and there\u2019s no real option without God. \u00a0I am God\u2019s, and God is mine. \u00a0 And in that family relationship with God there\u2019s an opportunity to grow and expand into it more fully.<\/p>\n

A big key to having more compassion for yourself in your learning is to remind yourself, \u201cThis situation is a challenge.” \u00a0Acknowledge to yourself, \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not feeling comfortable.” \u00a0An essential uplifting attitude is, “This situation, as awkward as it is, is for me not against me. \u00a0I know that through my faith and trust in myself and God.” \u00a0 Through your faith and trust, you can bring yourself into harmony with what is going on.<\/p>\n

Often when we feel contracted or withdrawn in a situation, it’s because we’re looking through the small self, the personal self. \u00a0The way to get to expansion is to realize that the big self would be who you are in God, as if God took the flesh, individualized itself as you, and took your form with all the requisite abilities. \u00a0The human form has conditions, and in those conditions we find out what our ordinariness is.<\/p>\n

John-Roger brought up that ordinariness<\/a> is the prior condition to God. \u00a0So when we\u2019re humble about what\u2019s going on, and we\u2019re trusting and accepting, these are qualities of being human. \u00a0 By being compassionate towards yourself, you make it okay personally when you\u2019re feeling withdrawn, contracted or awkward. \u00a0You don\u2019t put pressure on yourself to be different than you are. \u00a0By accepting yourself and your rate of spiritual progression, you\u2019re in the correct way of relating to yourself and what\u2019s going on so you can become more fully who you are as the beloved of God.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question: How can I be more compassionate with myself? Answer: Have you ever seen an acorn? \u00a0They\u2019re small and hard. \u00a0If we didn\u2019t know what an acorn can become, we might think of it as useless. \u00a0So if someone said, \u201cHey, that\u2019s an oak tree you\u2019ve got there,” that might seem strange. From where your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":109489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,152,257,262],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-mortons-current-story","category-loving","category-ndh-archives","category-traveler-q-a","tag-soul-awareness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}