Asking for Help Does NOT Make You Weak
The power and positivity of kindness, compassion, and empathy
It can be difficult to ask for help.
This is especially challenging now when so many forces equate asking for help as a weakness, unbecoming, and something to be avoided.
That’s simply not true.
Asking for help does NOT make you weak. What it does is make you open to receive kindness, compassion, and empathy.
I don’t care who you are or what your circumstances might be. You have an innate desire to receive kindness, compassion, and empathy.
Yet these are also being equated with weakness. Look at the leaders recently elected who regularly shit on kindness, compassion, and empathy – and still win elections.
Kindness, compassion, and empathy are not weak. The truth is that it’s not weak to ask for help and give or receive kindness, compassion, or empathy, in any way.
Everyone needs help from time to time
Nobody can live their entire life without receiving help along the way. Nobody.
That’s partially because the human experience involves interaction and cooperation between people. It’s partially because we are social creatures. In part, it’s because a great many things you seek to do in life require a minimum of 2 people helping one another in some way or other.
Are you reading this? Congrats, you are helping me help people seek, find, and employ more positivity, conscious reality creation, and mindfulness in their daily lives. Does what you read here make you think? Then I am helping you gain new perspectives or focus on existing ones in a different way.
Help can be tangible or intangible. Many heavy, awkward packages require 2 or more people to lift. Don’t know a word you read in that research paper? A dictionary helps you understand it. Not sure what that person is doing there? Asking questions helps you gain understanding.
Nobody goes without needing help along the way. Asking for help is not a weakness, in fact it’s a strength. Why? Because like kindness, compassion, and empathy, the inherent give and take of helping is empowering.
Asking for help empowers you
Despite notions to the contrary, asking for help is empowering. Why? Because it opens you up to receive data that can positively impact your life.
Further, it creates a channel to give and receive kindness, compassion, and empathy. Getting help gets you solutions to things. It also creates communications that can do wonders for the world.
Think about it. If more people were encouraged to ask for help, especially intangible help around understanding things, they’d be more empowered. Instead, they’re discouraged from asking for help and encouraged to blindly accept all sorts of surreal things.
What’s more, not asking for help keeps you small and fearful. Every message you see that tells you that asking for help makes you weak places that idea into your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind lacks filters to ask important questions such as “Is this true?” or “Is this applicable to me?”
Look at all the ways certain business leaders and politicians strive to make you and I believe that they, and they alone, can fix this, that, or the other thing. When you don’t ask for help – and accept false ideas of creating weakness – this starts to become easier to believe because your unfiltered subconscious mind buys it hook, line, and sinker.
Kindness, compassion, and empathy empower
Asking for help might make you vulnerable, but not weak. Sure, you admit you can’t do something/don’t know something when you need help – but nobody can do or know everything. NOBODY.
Ergo, everybody needs, fundamentally, to ask for help sometimes. More often than not it’s for a simple matter. But every time you ask for help you open channels for kindness, compassion, and empathy. That empowers you.
The narrative that kindness, compassion, and empathy are a sign of weakness is utter and total bullshit. Look at Trump. He is a huge proponent of this and shows it with his threats, anger, cruelty, uncompassionate and unempathetic ways. Yet he demands that you and I treat him and his pals with kindness, compassion, and empathy.
This variant of kindness, compassion, and empathy is attached to limitations, provisos, and conditions that are completely counter to the abundance inherent in kindness, compassion, and empathy. They are abundant in the Universe because they’re intangibles. There is more than enough to go around, and giving them – like asking for help – doesn’t make you weak. It empowers you.
When you get help, you’re more open to give help. Doing so in small ways channels greater positivity and empowers more people. When more people are empowered, they become more capable of choosing better for themselves. You gain more control of the elements of your life experience that you can control.
Hence, it does not make you weak.
Recognizing that asking for help doesn’t make you weak isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that asking for help is a natural, necessary part of the human condition – and not a sign of weakness – you can ask for help more easily. Knowing that asking for help channels kindness, compassion, and empathy, you can use this to freely gain greater understanding of yourself and the world around you, which opens you to greater understanding, and seeing more potential and possibilities in the world.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. With a broader dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself employs an approach and attitude of positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you for their empowerment.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the five-hundred-and-sixty-seventh (567) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity.
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