Hello friends, it's Rosie.
Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Wednesday.
Yesterday I was talking to my mom about how busy I am and the pressure that comes with that.
And I was feeling a bit guilty because at times this makes me agitated and even sharp with people.
As a suggestion, my mom asked me how my meditation practice was going.
And that made me think about how meditation has helped me be more compassionate to myself and others over the years.
So today, I thought it would be good to share some ways to have compassion,
especially when conflicts arise and anger starts to rear its ugly head.
I am such a big fan of practicing compassion, but also practicing self-compassion.
Now, compassion means that I want the suffering of another to end.
And the practice of self-compassion means I have the desire for my own suffering to end.
And I think when we're in a situation,
especially when we're in conflict, if we're feeling like we...
are suffering and our feelings are not being seen heard and understood we might feel that the only way to gain the other person's attention is to be loud or to do something abrupt those are the moments where you have to really practice self-compassion
because you are in a state of suffering in that moment so how can you give yourself the space the breathing space,
the emotional space,
even the physical space from the situation so that you can self-regulate and put yourself back into a calm state.
So let me tell you a little story.
I was driving to work and all of a sudden, this woman,
she raced in front of me and completely cut me off and then stuck her arm out and flipped me off.