QUIZ: How Self-Compassionate Are You?
(Published with permission of Dr. Kristin Neff) Read each statement, and then answer YES or NO. When I fail at something important to me, I become consumed by feelings of inadequacy. I try to be understanding and patient toward those aspects of my personality that I don't like.
The way you treat yourself MATTERS!
Imagine you witness the following scene: a small child, maybe, your friend’s son or daughter, your niece or nephew or even your own kid, is learning to ride a bike. He is fully entrenched in the experience, excited, trying his best, laughing but then suddenly he loses
The power of visualisation
Research shows that if you visualise doing something in your mind there are more chances you are going to do it in real life. For example, if your goal is to eat healthy nourishing food, yet you often can’t resist chocolate snack bars, you can try and visualise
Practice of self-compassion
Researchers on self-compassion L.Shapira & M. Mongrain found out that speaking kindly to yourself as a good friend just for a week (!!!) decreases depression symptoms and increases feelings of happiness even after 3 & 6 months’ intervals after the “intervention”. It’s possible to start with little steps,
How Your Emotions Affect Your Health
Do you know that many scientists agree that our physical body remembers traumatic events even if our mind forgot about it? I am a strong believer in the mind-body connection and even based my thesis on this topic. Our thoughts and emotions affect our body, and the state