4 Practices to Cultivate Every Day
Loving Kindness- Let this be your default action when you engage with others. Ask yourself “How can I act in loving kindness in this situation?” All acts of kindness leads you to the path of wholeness. Sometimes if you can’t think it…just act it out and see what grows in the soil of kindness.
Compassion- Putting yourself in another’s life situation and understand the suffering they may be experiencing helps one to grow the seed of compassion.
Empathetic Joy- Truly allowing yourself to rejoice in someone else’s wellbeing and joy. How fabulous is that?
Equanimity- This is a challenge but allowing yourself to patiently accept our own joy and suffering and of others.
If we can allow ourselves to trace back to the roots of happiness, we can follow a path of sacred connection with all life. Where does it reside within you? What is your relationship with yourself? How loving are you to yourself? Do you practice Equanimity for yourself? In theory, if you are not able to master this for yourself, then you may be greatly challenged with having to give it to another. What better way to practice compassion than to begin at the root of yourself…that is where happiness resides.
