MODULE 4: Self-compassion as a tool for change.

The concept of self-compassion for oneself is not a term that changes from having compassion for others. If we look at our experience we can verify:

 a. That to have compassion for another person, you must be able to feel their suffering. As it would be when we see people who are homeless or who have had to leave everything behind to start from scratch in a strange place. What allows us to be able to contrast with our own emotional state and to be able to learn to have different perspectives of the different circumstances that have led them to that or those that have created us to act or not act in the face of those or other circumstances.

 b. Compassion implies feeling moved by the sufferings of others so that our heart responds to that pain with pain, therefore, in the definition of compassion it is understood from "suffering with". When it happens, a state of warmth is generated, an idea of ​​caring, and an action towards the other to help and accompany them in their process of healing and solving their state of suffering, both at that moment and beyond.

 c. Compassion shows a meaning of understanding, of having kindness and love towards the other person, in the face of their failures or her mistakes, instead of simply judging them with emotion, the extreme judgment of her act.

 d. When compassion for others (as opposed to pity) is felt, we realize that error, suffering, failure, and imperfection are elements that build shared human experience.

 It is important to convey that compassion in our society is understood as a weakness of the person, while in Asian culture it is considered as an element of strength and greatness. It is when we understand that compassion must be transferred to self-compassion that makes us honor ourselves and accept our characteristics, our limitations, and mistakes both to do and not to do, as something typical of our learning towards the enlightenment of the person.

 In order to understand self-compassion, it is necessary to understand and understand our way of looking and how we judge our gaze, which causes changes in our responses to the outside as well as to the inside. Therefore, dance has been a means of learning to reconcile with ourselves and with the environment.