The Importance of Self-Compassion and Self-Acceptance
Self-compassion entails the recognition from people who have hurt us, it creates a core feeling of animosity and distrust that may stifle our interactions and limit our possibilities of being genuinely connected with others.
Self-acceptance is a process of love and acceptance of the whole self with imperfections and without special circumstances and conditions. It signifies recognizing that we are of worth.
We are unconditionally valuable due to our humanity combined with all its variations, weariness, and distinctive existences.
7
30 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Journeying Toward Tranquility in Letting Go
“
Similar ideas to The Importance of Self-Compassion and Self-Acceptance
Three ingredients of self-compassion
Self-compassion involves treating yourself with the same kindness with which you'd treat a loved one. Self-compassion consists of three ingredients:
- Self-kindness: Offering warmth and understanding to yourself.
- Common humanity
6. The Goal of Self-Awareness Is Self-Acceptance
- Self-awareness is wasted if it does not result in self-acceptance. If great self-awareness is coupled with self-judgment, then you’re merely becoming more aware of all the ways you deserve to be judged.
- Empathy can only occur in proportion to our own self-acceptance....
Compassion: The Antidote to Self-Criticism
Having compassion for yourself is really no different from having it for others. No one is perfect, we all make mistakes and it’s OK to feel stressed or sad. Pain and suffering are part of our shared human experience; they are just a reaction to what’s going on in our life.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates