How to Be Mindful and Not Abuse Others

Non violence has many forms. It always starts within you and is manifested when you are mindful of your words, actions, and behaviors towards other beings. Here are few steps to get you on the right path of mindfulness and nonviolence:

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Open mind
• Willingness
• Internal locus of control

1. Acknowledge that your words, actions and behaviors impact others along the way. Not hitting someone, but bullying them, is as harmful to the soul as much as the physical blow is damaging to the body.

2. Accept responsibility for your words, actions and behaviors at all times!
   Cutting off someone in traffic, or not allowing them to change lanes, when they have turned their turning signal on is still a form of abuse. It is abuse as a result of selfishness, disregard for others, and rudeness.
   
   Verbal and emotional abuse are the forms of abuse that can have the longest lasting effects. If you hit someone, the body heals in its due time; if you verbally and emotionally hurt someone, they still hurt inside after the physical scar had healed long ago.

3. If you lack internal locus of control, try some way to develop this. Join a spiritual practice, go to counseling and anger management classes, pray, volunteer with the needy and engage in some soul searching to see why you abuse others and how you can halt this behavior.
   
   Sometimes those who have been abused and hurt themselves, still go on to abuse others. What lessons did they learn?
   
   Nature gives you many lessons. When you are afflicted, nature is attempting to soften your soul and show you that others can feel the same pain when you in return hurt them. Those who do not learn nature's lessons will continue to hurt others and themselves in the long run. Nature is unforgiving.