It’s time to stop punishing yourself up and leave insecurity behind. Try to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life. Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends and family? It’s a very simple question but hard to answer. Isn’t it ? Based on a research called Self- Compassion - how kindly people view and treat themselves. It was found out that people who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to others, surprisingly are low on self-compassion, berating themselves for perceived failures as simple as like being overweight or not exercising.

1. Be Kind To Yourself

2. It’s time to stop punishing
yourself up and leave
insecurity behind. Try to
limit self-criticism and
offset its negative effects,
enabling you to achieve
your highest potential and
a more contented, fulfilled
life.

3. Do you treat
yourself as well as
you treat your
friends and family?

4. It’s a very simple question but hard to answer. Isn’t it ? Based on a research
called Self- Compassion - how kindly people view and treat themselves. It was
found out that people who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to
others, surprisingly are low on self-compassion, berating themselves for
perceived failures as simple as like being overweight or not exercising.

5. This research suggested that giving
yourself a break and accepting your
imperfections is the first step towards
better health. People who treat
themselves with compassion are less
likely to have depression and anxiety,
and tend to be happier and more
optimistic.
Research

6. Self-compassion is not to be
confused with self-
indulgence or lower
standards, people are afraid
to be self-compassionate
thinking they’ll become self-
indulgent. They often believe
self-criticism is what keeps
them in line. Most people
have gotten it wrong
because our culture says
being hard on yourself is the
way to be.

7. Imagine your reaction to a child struggling in school
or eating too much junk food. Many parents would
offer support, like tutoring or making an effort to find
healthful foods the child will enjoy. But when adults
find themselves in a similar situation struggling at
work, or overeating and gaining weight many fall
into a cycle of self-criticism and negativity. That
leaves them feeling even less motivated to change.

8. Self-compassion is really conducive to motivation.
The reason you don’t let your children eat five big
tubs of ice cream is because you care about them.
With self-compassion, if you care about yourself,
you do what’s healthy for you rather than what’s
harmful to you.

9. For those low self compassion,
try certain set of exercises,
such as writing yourself a
letter of support, just as you
might to a friend you are
concerned about. Listing your
best and worst traits,
reminding yourself that
nobody is perfect and thinking
of steps you might take to
help you feel better about
yourself are also
recommended.

10. Other exercises

11. Other exercises include meditation and “compassion breaks,”
which involve repeating mantras like “I’m going to be kind to
myself in this moment.”

12. In Fact, even a minor self-compassion intervention could
influence eating habits. Self-compassion is like a missing
ingredient in your daily diet a. It’s hard to unlearn habits of a
lifetime. People have to actively and consciously develop the
habit of self-compassion.

13. “A moment of self compassion can change your entire day. A
string of such moments can change the course of your life. “ -
Christopher K Germer

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