Being Kind to Yourself is Good for You
It is not just how you treat other people — it is how you extend those same behaviors and intentions to yourself as well. I believe you can be kinder in your own self-talk and practice gratitude. People are good at verbally beating themselves up, and rarely does that work as a pep talk. Rather, negativity often causes you to unravel and may even create a vicious cycle of regularly getting down on yourself. You wouldn’t talk to your neighbor the way you sometimes talk to yourself. This is what I call the “good neighbor policy,” which can be helpful. If you would not say it to your good neighbor, do not say it about yourself.
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This is superb! 🙂
Hi Terveen, We are often our toughest critics. We might offer a criticism to another and that’s the end of it. Often our self talk doesn’t know when to quit the critiquing. When I catch myself caught in this self-critique loop, I tell my self-talk to hang around as long as it wants to but to not let the door hit it in the ass when they leave. That is usually the end of it. Have a great day. Ray