Self Compassion Delivers Everything Self Improvement Promised

The messages we receive from the external world on a moment to moment basis often give us the feedback that we need to be doing more, and that what we are doing needs to be better. It is no wonder that our internal dialogue follows the same narrative. Consequently, we feel at our core that we are not loveable, not worthy, not deserving, and ultimately, not being enough. Our way of being becomes one of great self-aggression and avoidance. Self compassion is the warmth, love, and acceptance we choose to offer ourselves while we are in pain, teaching us to tend to ourselves regardless of the circumstances. It asks us to create a practice of turning toward our difficulties, and ultimately ourselves, with non judgement and compassion. Through self compassion we learn to meet ourselves and our lives with kindness instead of judgment, connection and community instead of isolation, and mindfulness or intention instead of being lost in thought or hyper analysis of our problems.