Medicine For Your Spirit

Kindness

With all the changes and chaos that ‘seems’ to be happening in this world and within ourselves, we can forget the basic act of kindness towards all situations and other people

We can find ourselves engaging in blame for our situations, we can project what we truly feel onto others, we can lose ourselves in the gossip and small minded chatter that tends to fill many moments so we can’t listen to our own mind or hearts, we can allow behaviours that really aren’t in our best interest to become the “norm’.

We forget to breathe, we forget to aspire to our highest vibration, we forget to engage in silence, we forget to be kind to our soul and to others.

The Dalai Lama is often quoted as saying………….. My religion is kindness”…………..Quite simple and a universal way for us all to connect and understand our humanness and all its foibles.

Recently at the Group Healing night at Chambers Island, we addressed the mindfulness of speech and thoughts.

The energy behind words is extremely powerful; the energy of our thoughts is even more potent. Our thoughts create our world; our words put our thoughts into the world, and create the action.

We must be clear about what we say to others, what we say about others, what we share about ourselves. In this time of clearing many old patterns in our lives, the commonality we all share is that we are human. We are all spirit, however we are experiencing the frailities, the weaknesses, the challenges that the human experience allows us to learn from.

In the moments of human weakness, where we could be energetically depleted, shattered, exhausted, confused, confronted and challenged, we need to express our pain and wounds. Often we do the venting to another person that we trust, or we value to hold us safe.

We are not asking them in most occasions to solve our issues; we are needing someone to listen to us, so we can HEAR, the unravelling of our own mind as we seek our own answers. We all know implicitly what we need to know, but sometimes a painful experience allows us to access that inner wisdom and bring into the light of our own understanding.

These moments we share our pain with another, should be treated as sacred. If you are the valued and trusted person that is there for another, you are being honoured. To hold a human in pain, to allow that weakness to be understood, is a very sacred moment.  

However many people, and I know we have all been guilty of it, can dishonour this moment of value and trust, by sharing the information with others. By ‘telling tales’, by gossiping, by engaging in the judgement of the situation and using it as conversation with others. You see and hear it all the time, the mums at the school pick up, the groups at the gym, the men at the pub, the coffee shop chatter.

This is where true kindness and respect for another’s sharing needs to be re assessed and revalued.

Make a commitment to yourself that if you hear this type of exchanges between people and it is not comfortable or kind, then simply leave. You can never change other people, and sometimes by expressing your discomfort at those conversations where others business is being discussed, can make it worse. Simply leave, walk away and offer a blessing of compassion for those engaged in that gossip. That in itself is a loud statement.

Gossiping is for people who spend much time looking at others’ lives and are too fearful to show up for their own, or to live their own life. It also lowers your own energetic vibration and can etherically harm the person or people you are speaking about.

We all need to hold each other and the interactions with each other as quite sacred. The times are testing us, the planet is shaking and quaking, which means we are as well. To pull each other apart, to chip away at another person’s soul by sharing their personal struggles with others, is a huge disrespect to yourself, your spirit and your journey.

There will always be the temptation to fall into this type of unkindness as we all attempt to feel better about the chaos that we can be experiencing, however, the highest thought, the highest choice for all concerned is to be KIND.

Take that breath, and access the depths of kindness towards yourself and others.

Sometimes the kindest action is to be silent, sometimes the most powerful action is to walk away, sometimes the thought of kindness to all, will help you take the step you need in any situation that is for everyone’s highest good.

In Kindness.