SUBTERFUGE FOR COMPASSION

Compassion is experienced at many levels, from the community at large, to the intimate and deepest personal level. The closer and more densely within your personal field something vibrates, the more powerfully you are affected by it.

You hear of a volcanic eruption with devastation and loss of life: it happens thousands of miles from you and involves people with a look and culture very different from your own. This is bad news to you. You feel sorry that this happened. You may even contribute to the efforts to help them evacuate, search for survivors, and relocate, shelter, and feed those who remain.

Now, consider that this place in the world is a place you have visited before. This place has special meaning for you, a face and a personality. You wonder if some of the people whom you met while there have been affected by this tragedy. This is more than bad news to you. It makes an impact and you reach out, perhaps giving more than you otherwise might.

What if the site of this volcanic eruption was an island from which your spouse’s family derived? Distant relatives still live there. Your level of compassion grows deeper. The vibration of effect is stronger and closer to you. You now feel compelled to do more, possibly even join the rescue mission on the island.

Bring this scenario home to your continent—then to your community—now, to your family. This tragedy has occurred to your closest family unit. How great is that impact and what is your level of compassion? How powerful grows that vibration of effect if you lose your spouse or child to death? Add to that your own wounding, say, of loosing limbs. Does the vibrational effect grow even greater?

Do you see? The vibration of Compassion, for most people, will increase in strength as it grows closer to the epicenter of personal involvement. And what does all of this have to do with Subterfuge?

Subterfuge can help you to connect, long or briefly, with the epicenter of another’s need for Compassion. It is human nature to be both drawn to, and to protect self from, the pain of others. We often attempt to gloss over this by attempting not to feel the negative emotions of others at all, by turning away, or by following rote protocols to ease our conscious mind’s authority, and soften our subconscious mind’s cajole.

Some of us are natural Empaths, and without personal will or conscious thought, will take on the pain of persons around us. That, in fact, can be very draining and detrimental. Those on an upward spiritual path will be in training to control their Empathic abilities, so that they aren’t disabled by the conflicting and downward spiraling, angry, fearful, and sick energy of those around them.

Connecting to these needs through Subterfuge is actually much easier and far more advisable. As an example: envision yourself taking on the role of a survivor of the volcanic eruption. What do you feel? Remember, you want to embody this role at a very high level. It is the nuance that will make your performance brilliant.

You have been traumatized, and so you feel unsafe, unsure, and are still suffering from some disbelief: how did this happen here, today, and to us, to me? Everything you have always known is now gone—your home and all of its memories, schools, churches, work places and businesses, public meeting spaces, and even landmarks. You don’t know yet who is alive and who is dead among your family members and friends. You are floating and rootless, exhausted, burned, confused, and without resources.

Rather than feeling the effects of all of those emotions, you can experience them through Subterfuge and the taking on of that role. In your mind and heart, you can wander around in that character’s aspects and consider what these things mean, as experienced by the human living on Earth today. 
Which of your own experiences can you use to help fully resonant the inner voice of your character and make it simpatico with the character role you are playing?

How now do you respond to the information of this volcanic eruption in that far away place? Through Subterfuge, you can invest in Compassion by increasing your level of understanding, while enabling yourself to stay free of the damaging aspects of uncontrolled Empathy. You can “try on” for short moments in time, what it feels like to be another person, to “walk a mile in their shoes.”

Try using Subterfuge the next time you encounter a news story of this type, or even pass a person who is begging on the street corner. Will you change the channel, or drop a dollar in the bucket—the easy ways—or will you take a moment to build your 
Compassion by using Subterfuge to imagine and momentarily embody their life role?

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from 
my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms 
with me from the other side of the veil.

May 27, 2014

photo by Walks With Fire