Compassion MEDS Card (Free Download)

Start your focus on getting more Compassion into your life with this free downloadable coloring card.

WHY COMPASSION IS IMPORTANT:

Having more compassion in your life will bring unconditional love to your life.  Compassion is unconditional love in action.  We lose compassion when we are having a difficult time mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.  We have a hard time connecting with ourselves due to difficulty in our life circumstances like relationship issues, illnesses, and addictions. We feel indifferent and heartlessness.  Sometimes, it’s hard to find compassion because we’re so focused on our own issues in life, and the love is not flowing for our personal connection.  We might have been hurt by someone, or we’re feeling like a victim due to a situation, or life is full of hardships so it is difficult to find compassion for ourselves, much less for others. 

When we reconnect with compassion, we are happy and joy-filled to share all the love we feel, through our actions with ourselves and others.  We have empathy for others.

HOW COLORING CAN HELP:

Coloring intentional words helps you to engage with the present by noticing and focusing on the quality you want to bring into your life.  While doing this, the mind will wander, but it should always be brought back to the object of focus without judging or being distracted by the content of those wandering thoughts. While moving your crayon, pen, or colored pencil through the intricate shapes on the page, your mind is focusing, often to the exclusion of unpleasant thoughts and the feelings which accompany them.

Coloring calms activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain that handles the “fight or flight” response. This response is a condition in which the body is in a heightened  state of panic and hyper-vigilance—it’s your brain trying to help you fight against something dangerous or, alternatively, to help you flee from it.  This can lead to inflammation—a state in which the body has been overstimulated by stress hormones, and is harming and exhausting itself. You may already know that inflammation is the root of many disorders, including asthma, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s, and arthritis, and is a silent killer.  Coloring disarms the amygdala, which, in turn, calms our bodies and brains.