Broken people?

Recently I watched a video from Robert, a NLP practitioner and was pretty hit by his statement:

There are no broken people

We develop our personality from the environment we grow up in. We see life in the light of our past experience. Our behaviour is a mere reflection of our past. Only the person that carries pain causes pain in others. Only the hurt mind will create more hurt.

You won’t expect the same outcome from seeds sowed in fertile land and barren land. Would you? It's just common sense that they can never be the same. So is human behaviour.

Everyone does their best in life to cope with the situations. Someone may become angry very quickly because he/she might have had an extremely angry father. Still they try their best. That's the best they can do with their experience and conditioning. Perhaps, you and I might have done the same, if we were in their shoes. A tracing paper cannot hold the weight a cardboard can take. It is as simple as that.

When you keep this in mind, forgiveness comes easily. It is worth doing this simple exercise now:

Close your eyes
Remember an experience in which some one hurt you
Try to remember the other person's actions, words and emotions
What do you see? Are they acting out their pain/Hurt/Anger/Rage/Panic?
Remind yourself that that's the best they could do in life.
Now replay the incident in your mind. How do you feel?

I burst into tears when I did this exercise. It was so emotional and felt so much compassion for the other person.

When you remember that there are no broken people, you would stop judging people. Most of the mind chatter comes from judgement. When there is no judgement, there is stillness and that’s what is divine connection is all about.
Smile now :-)