The ego can be harmful. It causes negative self-talk and can never be satisfied.
The Insatiable Ego: Our ego always wants more, creating a never-ending cycle of unhappiness.
Ego and Compassion: By taming our ego, we can cultivate empathy and kindness towards ourselves and others.
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While many have the quality of self-compassion from birth, one can also get trained on loving yourself.
A popular mindfulness meditation called ‘loving-kindness meditation’ guides our mind to focus on the feelings of love, forgiveness and warmth towards ourselves and others.
• Everything in the natural world was interconnected, and that our own lives were part of this interconnected web which includes acceptance of cycles of life and death, thus we should not resist or try to control them.
• We should view ourselves as citizens of the world, rather than just me...
Journaling can be a great tool to put the negative self-critic out of our minds and on paper.
The self-talk, when written down, morphs into self-compassion and is devoid of its power on us.
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