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Listener Favorites: Kristin Neff | Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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Do You Have a Higher Level of Self Compassion?

There does seem to be a universal beneficial effect to self compassion in the sense that taking the stance toward oneself at least from what we know so far. Some cultures encourage it more than others for instance a place like Thailand they have pretty high levels of self compassion because Buddhism is part of their culture. Other cultures like China was not just an east Westing China has very low levels ofself compassion because they encourage self criticism so much. The UK, I don't think there's been much self compassion research in India interesting these I don't know a lot about it. So yeah culture influences how much people how much self compassion people have.

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