Practice understanding

• Natural and Valid: Our feelings are natural and valid responses to our experiences, desires, and perceptions.
• Diverse Range: Feelings can encompass a wide range of emotions, from joy and love to anger and sadness, and they can also include attractio...

1. Self-Awareness: understanding of one’s emotions.
2. Self-Regulation: it frees us from being prisoners of our feelings.
3. Motivation: having an intrinsic desire to achieve things.
4. Empathy: the ability to understand emotions of other people.

Having compassion for yourself is really no different from having it for others. No one is perfect, we all make mistakes and it’s OK to feel stressed or sad. Pain and suffering are part of our shared human experience; they are just a reaction to what’s going on in our life.