Do you take it personally and get angry when someone treats you unkindly? Learn how to create greater peace by developing compassion for yourself and others.
Some of us have developed self-perceptions of worthlessness, shame, or inadequacy because we have taken responsibility for the shortcomings of the people around us. In this episode, I talk about how we cannot hold ourselves accountable for someone else's behaviors towards us when we act from good or loving intentions.
You have the power to change your self-perceptions by discovering how they developed. Once we understand how our story came to be, we can rewrite it with greater compassion for ourselves.
Through mindfulness, we can learn to check our intentions, check our perspectives, and check our actions so that we act more consistently from our values and a place of love.
Take Action:
Identify one aspect of your identity that contributes to feelings of worthlessness, shame, or inadequacy and identify the experiences and messages that caused you to develop that perception.
Choose to be open to the possibility that you can develop a sense of identity that is based on love and compassion.
I've started a private Facebook group so that we can interact and discuss concepts from each episode or any progress or challenges when you try to implement the take action items. I hope that you'll join me there.
