Compassion in Oneness 

By Asya Sirovnik, Certified LBL Hypnotherapist

Slovenia

Life on this planet is designed in such a way that, on our journey through life and its experiences, we are often faced with various challenges. The challenges we confront can range from our personal relationships and daily stress, to the harshness that is brought on by wars and environmental changes occurring with natural disasters.

A few years ago, I remember being in a big city where I had some workshops to facilitate while pregnant with our son. Being pregnant and leading workshops that were heart-opening and were connecting us to our spiritual nature left me in a very vulnerable state. I was highly sensitive and I could intensely feel the energy of people around me.

At that time, Eastern Europe began receiving a great influx of refugees who were fleeing from the Syrian war. They flooded the streets and camped right in the middle of this big city in front of the railway station. As we drove to our lecture hall, it was inevitable we would pass by their temporary camping area where these unfortunate people slept in tents or on blankets right under the sky. Because the traffic was very slow, we were held up for 15 minutes at the nearby intersection. As if in slow motion, I could observe children playing on the ground, or women standing by the water well (a kind of provisional arrangement), where they were washing their clothes. At some point, I saw a heavily pregnant woman walking slowly towards the water well and lining up to wash something. Behind her was a mother with a very young baby.

It is difficult to describe with words, but in that instant I lost the sense of myself sitting in that taxi car. At that very moment I found myself in the body of the pregnant woman, and at the same time, in the body of that small baby and her mother. It was as if I had split my consciousness and had become all of them at once. I was breathing their breath, feeling their physical sensations and almost hearing their thoughts. In my heart I experienced Oneness, and while I have had those experiences of Oneness before, it had never been so intense, nor had I been so strongly in the state of consciousness that there was no separation between me and “them”.

Suddenly the traffic lights turned green, and the taxi drove off with high speed as if rushing away from this moment in eternity, a moment that felt so strong it still echoed in my entire body. I then thought of my baby son. Was his soul disturbed by this experience of mine? As if in answer, I could feel him kick and a gentle thought ran through me: “Mommy we all are one. How can this truth be disturbing to me, if I come from Oneness and return to it?”

I immediately felt as though a giant door of understanding opened up in front of me. Experiencing deep respect for the souls with whom I had just shared the moment of Oneness with, I felt as if that part of me which had split off and was now back in my body, was on a mission. I needed to do something, anything, to help these souls on their journey.

On that day and during consequent days, I spoke to friends and journalists. I collected donations toward purchasing baby clothes, blankets, diapers, women’s sanitary pads, and many necessities we normally take for granted, yet which really become luxuries once one goes without them.

Because I was heavily pregnant, my friends and husband decided that I should stay in the hotel when these necessities were delivered to our fellow human beings. While my friends were taking the goods to them, I sat in silence witnessing a prayer that came from my soul. This was a prayer for our world: for a future where we all live in full awareness of our souls and the memories of how very connected we are; a prayer that our children remain in the blissful state of soul’s awareness that we all are one. I realized that the recognition of our Oneness calls for the great energy of compassion. ♦

Asya Sirovnik, LBL Hypnotherapist

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