Compassion on yourself

By watedroplet

In my last post I talked about accepting ourselves as we are. This brought me to a place called transparency. "Am I transparent to myself?" Can I say, "I am the same from the back as I am from the front"? This took me years to answer because I was never the same. I still remember those days when I would smile and talk to people and speak rubbish behind their back. This was the aftermath of what I received from others. I could sense this quite early before it was uncontrollable. I never wanted to be bad like this, but I became. My heart started to hate myself because this was not what I wanted to be.
At this moment, my inner voice said to analyze what went wrong rather than to blame and hate yourself. Every time I would try to do good, the badness I received from others stood before me, and I pulled back. 

These incidences flew me to all those people who did me wrong, and I was madly angry at them. They never asked me sorry. I was able to forgive them because I made up my mind to drop this fight, which was destroying me from the inside. It took time and my sincere religious efforts.

Something similar is showing kindness to self. We have to take time and make efforts to convince ourselves that we are not perfect and we can also make mistakes. Mistake means only "missed take." We all know that we have not come into this world with pretraining. We learn here and use heuristics to solve our problems. So we also can miss right takes towards the scenario or miss some essentials that might have led us right.

Core components of self-compassion 

Taken from "Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself."

a) Being kind to ourselves: This means that we be gentle and understanding with ourselves and not 

harsh and judgemental to ourselves. I will be talking about this in my later post on kindness. 

b) We are all in this together: This means that we all have some common human experiences and none 

of us are perfect. I will be talking about this more in my later post titled as "Human experiences which are 

common to all."

c) Being mindful of what is: Mindful means being aware. We need to see things as they really are, neither

being too emotional or being too hostile. I will be dealing with this in my post on mindfulness. 


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Comments

  1. Srivalli Rekha6 April 2025 at 00:54

    Thank you for sharing a part of you with us. Kudos to you for realizing the toxic pattern and breaking it. You proved you were never like them and are a better person!

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  2. Pandian R6 April 2025 at 06:07

    This is such a positive content. Introspection to arrive at solutions is not easy, and you articulate it very well. Please continue writing.

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