Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff- Week 4

Hello everyone. Welcome to “Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff” week 4. I know I keep saying this but I need to. Please remember that everything in quotation marks is straight from the book.

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“Nothing helps build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves  the willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, to take the focus off of yourself and to imagine what it would be like to be in someone else’s predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It’s recognition that other people’s problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Compassion is something you can develop with practice. It involves two things: intention and action. Intention simply means you remember to open your heart to others; you expand what and who matters, from yourself to other people. Action is simply the What do you do about it?  You might donate a little money or time ( or both ) on a regular basis to a cause near to your heart. Or perhaps you’ll offer a beautiful smile and genuine Hello to the people you meet on the street. It’s not so important what you do, just that you do something. As  Mother Treasa reminds us, “We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love.”

Compassion develops your sense of gratitude by taking your attention off of all the little things that most of us have learned to take too seriously . When you take time, often, to reflect on the miracle of life - the miracle that you are even able to read this book - the gift of sight,of love, and of all the rest, it can help to remind you that many things that you think of as big stuff are really just small stuff  that you are turning into big stuff.”

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Well thats all for today see you next week. 

                                 Sophie Shearman