The #365DaysOfCompassion Review 21st May 2022

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  Accepting your darkest emotions is the key to psychological health

  Quartz - Lila MacLellan

  Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet, famously compared emotions—“a joy, a depression, a meanness”—to “unexpected visitors.” His advice was to let them in laughing, but that’s not what we do. Instead, we pretend not to notice, or even hide. We want to bury resentment and anger, or trade loneliness in …

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  Kindness: not just for yourself

  michaeleisen.co.uk

  As I’ve noted before, therapeutic approaches that make use of compassion, loving-kindness etc often focus on kindness to oneself. There are reasonable …

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  It's OK to Be Good and Not Great

  Outside Magazine - Brad Stulberg

  “Good is the enemy of great” is one of the most popular self-improvement expressions there is. It’s the first sentence of an international bestselling business book, the title of another self-help book, and a mantra that NFL superstar J.J. Watt has used in press conferences. It sounds appealing and …

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  The Role of Likeability in Discriminating Between Kindness and Compassion - Mindfulness

  springer.com - Kirby, James N.

  Willingness to act with compassion or kindness for liked versus disliked targets. Note: Error bars represent standard error of the mean Difference in …

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  Using memories of compassion to activate the compassionate self

  Stan Steindl on YouTube

  Episode 4 of Compassion 180: Three Minute Gifts of Compassion. We can often get all caught up in threat system activation. Usually, this means an internalisi...