Self Compassion

"I have just three things to teach:  simplicity, patience, compassion.  These are your greatest treasures.  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world."Lao Tzu

As caregivers, we are called to give much compassion toward our loved one.  The person we may forget to be compassionate toward is ourselves.  It is critical that we are compassionate with ourselves.  We simply cannot be compassionate toward another unless we are compassionate toward ourselves.  When we are compassionate toward ourselves, we benefit the whole world.  We are all interconnected energetically -- much like the grove of aspen trees, which seem -- as one looks out across a meadow with aspens -- to be separate; but, when one looks underground, one sees the vast network of the one root supporting all the trees.  So, too, with us.  We are interconnected energetically, and when we are compassionate toward ourselves, we are a blessing onto the world.