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Acknowledging is becoming aware of whatever is going on inside you in the moment, exactly how you are experiencing it, without judging it, changing it or fixing it in any way. It's noticing your experience and letting it be there exactly the way it is.
Being With Being With is spending time with your inner experience -- a half-minute, a minute, or five or ten. It's "hanging out" with it, "keeping it company," in an interested, accepting, gently curious and friendly way, like you would with a friend who's coming over for coffee or tea, without any expectation that you will change it.
Compassion Compassion is extending compassion and empathy to those inner parts or places within you that are sad, hurting, scared, angry or upset. It's recognizing that they have a good (that is, understandable) reason for the way they feel, even if you don't know what it is yet, and even if, on another level, you disagree with their reasoning. Trying to argue with them to change how those inner places feel is never as effective as extending compassion and understanding to them. When compassion is extended to any part of your self that is stuck in suffering,that part begins to heal.
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