Is Self-Compassion Acceptance?

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Self-compassion has several parts to it. It is acceptance. There's beautiful trainings at Chris Gerber at Harvard and Kristin Neff have a whole, whole beautiful training you can find online on mindful self-compassion. You start to say, Oh, this isn't about me. This is just about the fact that we all go through stuff. And then you bring in the cultivation of compassion for everybody who's lost in self judgment. In this process, it starts to shift the interior, or the charge to shift the way you hold yourself. A kind of confidence grows that's different than sort of brash confidence.

Author and Buddhist practitioner Jack Kornfield sits down for a candid, in-depth interview to help you suppress self-doubt and find inner calm. Calling on decades of experience as one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West, Kornfield offers valuable insights into how to best deal with conflict and stress in your life and how to handle harmful outside influences in healthy, constructive ways. Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974, co-founding the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold over a million copies.

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