Reframing Life Events With Compassion - Thupten Jinpa

Another practical step that you can take is to develop a habit of recasting your motivations from a standpoint of compassion on a regular basis.

So for example,

When you had a difficult encounter with someone at a workplace,

What is done is done,

But in a reflective moment,

If you are able to revisit in your mind,

In some sense,

Play out the scenario,

Replay the scenario,

And then see how could you have responded to this situation differently by bringing compassion.

And that kind of reassessment,

That kind of reframing,

Whether it is a relationship with a workplace,

Whether it is dealing with a tragedy or adversity,

Whether it is in a relationship with intimate people in your life,

Including your children or spouse,

Every now and then,

Being able to take the time to reflect and reframe and recast the situation by,

In some sense,

Changing the story by adding a little bit of a different mix by throwing in compassion to see how the decks fall into place.

I think that is an important habit that really could help so that you are really able to bring compassion more actively into your everyday life.