When doing forgiveness work, be kind to yourself. Practice loving-kindness with this five minute guided meditation.
Sometimes the inner monologues of our stressed brains run amock.
It can be hard to change the messages that replay in our minds.
Join Amy Chicos on Akimboo as she guides you through a loving-kindness meditation.
Keep listening every day for five days and see how your power for loving-kindness grows.
This will help you on your path to self-forgiveness.
Professor of Psychology Loren Toussaint, explains psychology knows less about self-forgiveness than about forgiving others.
It can be hard to talk about self-forgiveness. It can be difficult to admit that we've done something wrong or hurt someone.
We tend to feel a lot of guilt and self-blame and self-loathing.
But acknowledging you’ve done something wrong can be a very simple and powerful way to relieve deep anxieties.
The very first thing you have to do is you did something wrong
Acknowledge that out of your actions someone is suffering now
When you forgive others you replace hard feelings with affection thoughts feelings and behaviors
When you forgive yourself, instead of hating on yourself and feeling you're not worthy, you treat yourself with more love and kindness
Doing that means you value yourself and you're worthy of love and affection
You get rid of the hard feelings so you can love and accept yourself
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