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How to Improve Your Self-Compassion

Exercises to become kinder towards yourself.

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Gustavo Razzetti
Jul 09, 2018
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Exercises to become kinder towards yourself.

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“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”— Nathaniel Branden

Self-compassion beats self-confidence anytime, as I wrote in my previous post. I discussed how overconfidence and narcism force us to compare to others, they blind us and make us feel miserable when things go wrong.

Being self-compassionate is like fresh oxygen to your mind.

Here are some exercises for you to put on your oxygen mask first.

1. Reframe your thoughts

When your inner voice is making critical judgments, moderate those thoughts by making them conscious.

Reframe your judgmental words in a positive way.

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