What keeps us from being kinder to ourselves?
Self-pity, selfishness, self-indulgence or self-centeredness. Such erroneous associations have built up over the years about self-compassion, and now we sometimes find it really hard to get rid of them. Many people in our culture have grown to have doubts about the idea of a kind attitude towards the self. Quite often because they don’t really know what to think of it and how to practice it in real life. So, what to imagine and how to practice it in reality?