A Compassionate Outlook encourages us to cultivate a genuine interest in others without being self-centering. Evolving to a Compassionate Outlook – The benefit of developing a compassionate view of the other Compassion is the ability to understand the emotional state of another person or of oneself. Often confused with empathy, compassion has the additional element of having a desire to relieve or reduce the suffering of the other person. Compassion should be as regards a verb. Having compassion for someone involves more than putting yourself in their place and genuinely wanting to understand and to help. It consists of getting an entirely different perspective when it comes to how you may perceive others around you.   The look of compassion Through life passages, we are developing thousands of relationships that are not necessarily healthy ones. We tend to look at others, and ourselves always from narrow perspectives. We forget to recognize the other person as a free and complex being, as unique and full of experiences as we are. We tend to judge and reduce their complexity as an element disconnected from our humanity.   What is compassion? To have compassion is precisely to give this freedom to our feeling and others’ feelings.  It is to create responsiveness for people’s experiences unconditionally and go beyond, searching for ways to help them. Etymologically, the word compassion originates in the Latin “compassionis”, which means “common feeling” or “union of feelings.” Compassion, this junction of ours with the feeling of the other, automatically leads to solidarity, to altruism, which are essential actions to the existence and survival of humanity. Compassion for others does not depend on the conditions, it’s not about liking someone or not. You do not have to like someone to have compassion for that person. We must feel and do good...

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