02-08-2014, 01:33 PM
Troll is a label, too.. can be inflaming.
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Anyway, compassion --> in latin --->compati, means 'to suffer with'.
I was thinking about this need to alleviate others' suffering. I dunno if it's compassion that motivates people to help alleviate others' suffering. On the biological level, we do try to attend to others' suffering. We have mirror neurons that fire when we see people suffering (the biological function of empathy) and that can motivate people to take care of others' suffering. Our switch can turn on and we might try to give advice or do something to help. Mirror neuron helps mothers to be sensitive to their infant's distress & be able to take care of the baby's needs. It's how we respond to others' emotional experiences. Trigger these and people might donate thousands of dollars to some 'save the children' charities.
This need to intervene or help in some way could be projective identity (like 'countertransference) - that I can identify with the others' pain so I will project my own pain outwardly to other, thus avoiding the opportunity to take care of own pain. This sounds pretty nice, like a sacrifice - that I can withhold from taking care of my own pain to attend to others. Maybe it could be about being highly triggered and unable to help. So yeah, balancing/healing is necessary to be able to help others.
I met green-ray activated healers (their ray activation was intuitively assessed). The remarkable thing about them is that they can 'hold' the space and just be very present with whatever comes up. They don't do much and a lot of things may happen in that space they are holding. No need to change others, no offering of words of comfort, just being. So I can see what Ra means by the being informing the work. Being in their space is like being able to express self freely, to wail, cry, be angry, sad - that it's all OK, I understand, I am OK. They seem to have full faith that I know what I am doing. And probably most of us 'know' what needs be done. They might be like batteries to help charge us up and protectors who's presence can be reassuring. Tao said, the master does little and get a lot done, people do a lot and more is yet to be done lol.
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Anyway, compassion --> in latin --->compati, means 'to suffer with'.
I was thinking about this need to alleviate others' suffering. I dunno if it's compassion that motivates people to help alleviate others' suffering. On the biological level, we do try to attend to others' suffering. We have mirror neurons that fire when we see people suffering (the biological function of empathy) and that can motivate people to take care of others' suffering. Our switch can turn on and we might try to give advice or do something to help. Mirror neuron helps mothers to be sensitive to their infant's distress & be able to take care of the baby's needs. It's how we respond to others' emotional experiences. Trigger these and people might donate thousands of dollars to some 'save the children' charities.
This need to intervene or help in some way could be projective identity (like 'countertransference) - that I can identify with the others' pain so I will project my own pain outwardly to other, thus avoiding the opportunity to take care of own pain. This sounds pretty nice, like a sacrifice - that I can withhold from taking care of my own pain to attend to others. Maybe it could be about being highly triggered and unable to help. So yeah, balancing/healing is necessary to be able to help others.
I met green-ray activated healers (their ray activation was intuitively assessed). The remarkable thing about them is that they can 'hold' the space and just be very present with whatever comes up. They don't do much and a lot of things may happen in that space they are holding. No need to change others, no offering of words of comfort, just being. So I can see what Ra means by the being informing the work. Being in their space is like being able to express self freely, to wail, cry, be angry, sad - that it's all OK, I understand, I am OK. They seem to have full faith that I know what I am doing. And probably most of us 'know' what needs be done. They might be like batteries to help charge us up and protectors who's presence can be reassuring. Tao said, the master does little and get a lot done, people do a lot and more is yet to be done lol.
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