Wanting to protect
other people may be due to your desire to take care of everyone around you.
While this can be healthy, perhaps today you might want to reflect upon your
reasons for defending others when they are capable of taking care of
themselves. Should you have a need to protect someone else, you may want to
think about what it is you have to gain. If you know that you will receive praise,
for example, you can ask yourself why that is so important to you and maybe
even think about ways in which you can give that to yourself. Understanding
your motives for helping others could allow you to give them what they truly
need rather than fulfilling your own desires.
Having the right motives for taking care of and protecting
others means that when we do help, we are doing so out of a sincere desire to
foster their best interests. There are probably many times when we feel that
defending people will bring us something positive, such as praise or loyalty,
when in fact these things never manifest themselves in the ways we desire.
Truly supporting someone means that we do so from a place of pure intent and
hope for nothing in return. By thinking about your intentions today, your
protection of others will come from your true heart-centered desire to help.
~ DailyOm ~
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