The Self-Love Workbook by Shainna Ali

Author:Shainna Ali
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2018-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

How you view yourself can greatly affect your self-love. Negative thoughts can taint your view of your worth and can serve as obstacles in promoting self-loving practices. On the other hand, a positive mindset can help you to create a sturdy foundation to foster your self-loving practices.

SELF-ESTEEM REFLECTION

CHAPTER 6

SELF-KINDNESS

Self-kindness is the skill of being friendly to yourself. Self-kindness is associated with happiness, optimism, curiosity, conscientiousness, intrinsic motivation, emotional intelligence, and well-being. Self-kindness can be helpful in reducing stress, anxiety, self-criticism, avoidance, and depression. It can include how you tend to your needs and practice self-care. It can also encompass your approach to a negative thought, feeling, prompt, or situation. For example, having the self-awareness to tune into your needs and practice self-care is a gesture of self-kindness. Your self-kindness is also demonstrated in times in which you are faced with hurdles in your path. During such times, treating yourself with care instead of judgment and criticism is a crucial act of self-love.

Self-kindness is the balance you strive for between being dedicated to personal growth yet mindful of the need to be accepting, compassionate, patient, and grateful along the way. A strong sense of self-kindness allows you to acknowledge difficulties as a normal part of life, and to respect yourself as you progress on your self-love journey.

You have already learned some helpful ways to practice self-kindness, such as challenging unhelpful thinking (page 68), creating motivational messages (page 72), or employing affirmations (page 73).

Thinking about the definition of self-kindness, how are you nice to you?

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