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Welcome to Heal Yourself, Change Your Life. My name is Brandy Gillmore, and after recovering from my own life changing injury, it's become my mission to share with others the same discoveries I made. that changed my health and my entire life. Our minds are truly incredible. The placebo is proof of this.

Each week I will take this simple awareness to a whole new level. I will even coach live callers to free themselves of physical pain using only their mind. And then I'll provide you with a combination of practical and spiritual insights that you can use to master your mind and body. Your emotions and your energy to help you heal your health, yourself and your life.

Let's begin.

Hello, and welcome to this week's quick IQ episode, where we talk about insights and questions. And today we have a really great question from a listener regarding the difference between compassion. And I just love this question because the truth of it is, is that one of these, of course, compassion can be great for your healing, for your empowered journey, for others around you.

And sympathy, unfortunately, isn't. Good for you. It's not the pattern that you want. You know, if you think about it for a moment, looking at just patterns in general, you know, on past episodes, we've been talking about, you know, patterns breed more of the same. And we know that we can have patterns from childhood, you know, patterns of abandonment or criticism or hurt or whatever that is.

And of course, positive patterns too. But what can happen is that when you think about the big picture of sympathy, if somebody has a pattern of sympathy, and let's say. And that pattern continues throughout their life, which means that 20 years from now, what has to happen? You know, they of course have to have problems in their life to then have sympathy because those patterns continue.

And so not only is it not good for you, but it's not good for others around you. And so I want to talk about the subtle, but very important difference. And it's this, you know, if you think about somebody who's amazing, who is truly incredible, you see somebody who's amazing, who's living their life and something negative happens, but you know, that that person can take care of the issue.

You know, that that person can rise above that challenge. So they may be going through a hardship and struggle with it right now, but you believe in them to make it to the other side and to rise above it and to become even better because of that. And you believe in them. You feel like they're truly an amazing being.

From that place, you can have compassion for what they're going through. You can think to yourself, you know, gosh, we've all been through hard times, and I have so much compassion. It sucks. And you've got this. I believe in you. And so that is a feeling of compassion, of having compassion, of knowing. Going through hardship, Isn't fun and having that compassion and also believing in the person now when we look at the pattern or feeling of Sympathy sympathy has a feeling of powerlessness to it It says I feel sorry for you.

And when you feel sorry for somebody it's like oh that happened to you It was out of your control. There's nothing you can do about it. God. I just feel so sorry for you and sympathy. In that place, there's not a feeling of belief in that person to overcome, belief in that person to say, look, you've got this, that feeling.

You know, if you think about it for a moment, imagine if in your life in the past, maybe it's something that you've struggled with. Somebody said to you, look, I have so much compassion. I understand. I get how it feels to go through all of this stuff. Like I get the struggle. I totally understand. And I believe in you, you've got this, I know it sucks, but you've got this, and I believe in you and I have compassion, and I believe in you.

How that would have felt to you, and how that would have felt, that kindness, that support, that awareness, that understanding, but also the feeling of believing in you, compared to if somebody said, wow, I'm so sorry. This is a horrible situation. And this is just horrible. And I feel so, so sorry for you. I have so much sympathy for you.

I just have so much sympathy. You know, sympathy is, is like, oh, it's a heaviness. It's like, oh, this situation, it's horrible. It's terrible. And you're stuck. Type of feeling like a powerlessness. So I know personally with my own past and all of that, sure, somebody can have compassion and also, okay, great, like I came out on the other side, but do I want people to feel sorry for me?

Oh gosh, never. I don't want sympathy at all. So that feeling, that difference again, while it seems small, the difference between compassion and sympathy, it's big. It's the difference of believing in somebody and having compassion, having understanding, but believing in them compared to a feeling of powerlessness, a feeling that they have no power to change the situation, to transform it, to rise above it.

And that's the difference. And not only in that situation, of course, but also in the big picture as far as patterns, because, you know, as we talk about all the time from past episodes, you'll hear me use the example, the unfortunate example of a woman with an abusive father who leaves him and finds the abusive boyfriend, boss, spouse, et cetera, you know, that pattern unfortunately can continue and patterns do, they continue in our lives.

And we know that we can see that. And. The pattern of sympathy is not a good one and I can tell you, you know, if you think again about past episodes where I'm working with people to help them to radically shift their health, where they can use their mind to release pain in minutes or all kinds of things.

And I can tell you that sympathy is definitely connected to illness and problems and ongoing. Illness and so we definitely don't want that in our lives And so I love this question for that reason just because this can affect your health it can and does Affect people's lives all of the time and so in your own life and for your loved ones I invite you to you know, if somebody's going through something have compassion and believe in them Not sympathy.

And if you're going through a hard time, I get it. I understand. I have compassion and I believe in you to rise above, to change, to transform. And so that's today's quick IQ episode. And I want to invite you, if this is a shift for you in your life, whether towards your own emotional patterns or others and your loved ones.

I would invite you to take this in to make this incredible shift. And so again, that's today's quick IQ episode. And I want to ask you to please do make a point to hit the share button on this episode, you know, share it with somebody you love, somebody you care about, or somebody you don't even know, because the more empowered and happy and healthy and loving that every single person is in our world.

The better this world is for all of us. And so please do make a point to hit the share button and please do make a point to have a most wonderful, fantastic, empowered, happy, and healthy, loving rest of your day. And I look forward to connecting with you on the next episode. We'll see you there.

Thank you for listening to Heal Yourself, Change Your Life. All of the time, people reach out and say how much these episodes have given them hope or touch their heart or help them stay positive in hard times, or even woken them up to a completely new level of awareness. Of how amazing we all really are.

If today's episode touched your heart or expanded your mind in any way, please do me a favor and be sure to share it with those you care about, or those, you know, who really need it as more and more people become empowered, it really will change our world for the better. That is the point. And the power of these demonstrations is to create a radical shift in our world consciousness by showing everyone.

What we are all capable of. And of course, each volunteer will really need to follow through to reinforce their programming, to maintain their results. But the point is for you to see that you really can create rapid results in your health and your life, if you really understand how to use your mind, you're incredible.

And I do want to be clear though, that most people will not get results this fast on their own. I make it look very easy because of the discoveries that I made. You'll want to remember that there's so much more going on in our minds at a deeper level than people realize. That said, if you want to send me any questions or comments, come visit me on my website at brandygillmore.com/podcast. And if you're currently experiencing physical pain and would like to be a volunteer on the show, you can sign up there as well. Lastly, Please remember, if you do have any health issues, you won't want to avoid your doctors. Instead, you'll want to continue seeing them and make it your goal to blow their minds with what you're capable of with your mind.

Thank you.