dailydatewithgod

I have learned that self-compassion is a quicker road to healing than self-condemnation.  This would most likely explain how the path of recovery has made many more strides in freeing my heart.  It lets me know no matter how much my inclination may still lean towards self-condemnation, it will never get me where I really want to go.  There is a soothing nature to self-compassion reminding me how God sees things differently than I do.  It did not seem to matter how much I made myself wrong and bad or how many names I called myself, none of it moved me in a sustainable direction of healing.  It is amazing how despite the lack of results, I continued to practice it.  It is evidence of how we all do what we know.  I did not know differently.  I had limited exposure to the soothing and healing nature of self-compassion.  How was I supposed to know it would work where self-condemnation did not? I needed it to be demonstrated by someone else towards me many times before it started to sink in.  I had to learn to humbly turn towards God and say,” I don’t know how to see this differently.  How would you approach creating a change in my heart?” Just asking the question created a soothing of my mind because I was no longer left to my own devices to figure it out.