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The 'Five Levels of Compassion'

Updated: Apr 30

The 'Five Levels of Compassion' were described so beautifully by my personal hero, the brilliant Dr. Gabor Maté: Please do watch any of his YouTube videos, they will literally change your life. Compassion is the way that we need to show up for ourselves and others as part of our individual and collective healing journey. Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world: Behind the masks that we wear. Dr. Gabor Maté says that "We are all like the rest of us." This is the basis of compassion.


The five levels of compassion are:


1. Ordinary human compassion. This is the same as empathy. We don’t want someone to suffer. It’s the brain system that cares for others. Even rats have this. Most of us have that care system for other human beings. Otherwise children wouldn’t survive. Not everyone has this. A fellow sentient being is suffering and we don’t want them to suffer. This is not enough. It’s necessary but not enough.


2. The compassion of understanding. "I want to understand why you are suffering." What happened. WHY are you suffering? Why are you addicted?


3. The compassion of recognition. We don’t see ourselves as different from each other. We are one. "I don’t see myself as different from you."


4. The compassion of Truth. Jesus said "I want you to know the Truth. I am not trying to protect you from the Truth. I believe that the Truth will liberate you." You can ask anything from anybody. Even if it brings pain or sadness. As the Truth is necessary.


5. The compassion of possibility. When you look at even the most rejected person you see them without judgement as the full human being that they are and that can be manifested. You are aware of that possibility. This is the level of compassion that we aim for in Transformative Life Coaching (TLC). I see and speak to the highest version of a person and it brings it to life for them, free of ego. Compassion is the only thing we can actually give anyone. To see another without judgement is the first step to them having Self-compassion and Self-worth. Compassion is the antidote to shame.


The 'Five Levels of Compassion' by Dr. Gabor Maté


Trauma and Compassion from the Trauma Superconference (Trauma and Awakening) by Dr. Gabor Maté


For my full article on 'Compassion'; click on the following link:



Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you: Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.


George Bernard Shaw wrote that “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Are you ready to change your mind?


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


Olly



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