{"id":548,"date":"2012-01-14T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/?page_id=548"},"modified":"2012-01-14T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:17:27","slug":"compassion-exercise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/?page_id=548","title":{"rendered":"Compassion Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u00a0<\/span>Honesty with Yourself Leads to Compassion for Others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective: To increase the amount of compassion in the world.<br \/>\nExpected result: A personal sense of peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions:<br \/>\nThis exercise can be done anywhere that people congregate (airports,<br \/>\nmalls, parks, beaches, etc.). It should be done on strangers, unobtrusively,<br \/>\nfrom some distance. Try to do all five steps on the same person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1 With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:<br \/>\n\u201cJust like me, this person is seeking some happiness for his\/her life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2 With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:<br \/>\n\u201cJust like me, this person is trying to avoid suffering in his\/her life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3 With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:<br \/>\n\u201cJust like me, this person has known sadness, loneliness, and despair.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4 With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:<br \/>\n\u201cJust like me, this person is seeking to fulfill his\/her needs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5 With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:<br \/>\n\u201cJust like me, this person is learning about life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VARIATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. To be done by couples and family members to increase understanding of each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0 To be done on ex-spouses and partners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. To be done on old enemies and antagonists still present in your memories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. To be done on other life forms.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thelifemanagementcenter.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">http:\/\/thelifemanagementcenter.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tools2changeyourlife.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">http:\/\/tools2changeyourlife.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Honesty with Yourself Leads to Compassion for Others. Objective: To increase the amount of compassion in the world. Expected result: A personal sense of peace. Instructions: This exercise can be done anywhere that people congregate (airports, malls, parks, beaches, etc.). It should be done on strangers, unobtrusively, from some distance. Try to do all five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}