Radical generosity

I have felt like I have been tested time and time again by life.  Recently, though, it has peaked!

Sometimes it has meant that I feel incredibly naive but my insistence remains steadfast.  That is that we need more relentless, radical generosity in this world. More gentle disruption of the old story of assumptions, jumping to conclusions and bad mouthing. The kind that sees through the pretense and the masks that people put up.  Right through to their core being.  Seeing through the manifestations of their own unique trauma and being compassionate.  In doing so we start to become more quickly aware and wiser to the layers upon layers of protection, wounding and fear induced conditioning in ourselves and others and perhaps create a fertile ground for emotional healing.

This also means that we have to forgive.  This is a tricky one for most people.
For relentless, radical generosity means forgiving too.  For it means giving other people the benefit of the doubt.  How many times do you really do that?  I mean really? How often do we assume the best of the other person or people in a given situation?

Brene Brown has created the BRAVING acronym in relation to trust and self-trust and the G stands for generosity.  That is, extending the most generous interpretation possible to the intentions, words and actions of others and for me this needs us to be relentless, not beaten down by the tests life will throw at us, in our pursuit of generosity.

I wonder what the world would be like if we all committed to be radically generous first and to check ourselves when we find that we are back in the old paradigm of always thinking the worst and not the best of a person or a situation. Perhaps next time you feel life is challenging you in this way, you might simply pause and ask yourself if you are being the most radically, relentlessly generous you can be in that moment.