The Ultimate New Year's Resolution | Susan Piver and Jeff Warren

Dec 28, 2020

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Jeff Warren

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Susan Piver

Susan Piver, a meditation teacher and bestselling author, teams up with Jeff Warren, a fellow meditation expert and co-author, to discuss self-compassion as a fresh approach to New Year’s resolutions. They emphasize that pursuing personal goals through self-love rather than self-loathing can lead to lasting change. Listeners are encouraged to join the New Year’s Meditation Challenge to foster kindness toward themselves, explore intrinsic worth, and navigate the negative impacts of comparison, all while tackling the inner critic with playful acceptance.

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ADVICE

Self-Love as Friendship

Ask yourself what you'd say to a struggling friend.
Treat your inner self with the same kindness and support.

INSIGHT

Redefining Love

The word "love" can be misleading due to its Hollywood portrayal.
Redefine it as slightly positive instead of grandiose.

INSIGHT

Self-Compassion vs. Self-Esteem

Self-compassion doesn't judge who you are, unlike self-esteem.
It acknowledges your struggles and offers care, regardless of your qualities.

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New Year’s Series Episode 1. We talk with expert meditation teachers Susan Piver and Jeff Warren about a radical approach to the new year: self-compassion. Susan and Jeff help introduce the New Year’s Meditation Challenge launching in the Ten Percent Happier app. And we respond to listener voicemail questions about how to operationalize self-love in our everyday lives. That’s right, we’re going all-in on self-love: leaning into the cheese, diving into the fondue, surfing the brie (a phrase that you’ll hear one of our guests today coin in real time). But I want to be clear: this is not sap for the sake of sap -- this is sap for the sake of science, and sanity. As tens of millions of us go about the annual, humiliating ritual of making and then abandoning New Year’s resolutions, there is ample evidence that you are more likely to achieve your long-term goals if you pursue those goals not out of self-loathing or shame (which is the not-so-subtle subtext of the whole ‘New Year, New You’ slogan) but instead with self-love -- or self-compassion. So we have a whole bonanza of programming for you. First, our New Year’s Series starts today here on the podcast. Over the next few weeks, we’ve got a blockbuster lineup, including scientists, meditation teachers, and Karamo, star of the hit Netflix show Queer Eye and a vocal proponent of self-love. How to join the New Year’s Challenge: · Download the Ten Percent Happier app directly in the Apple App Store (for iPhone/iPad): http://apple.co/1V7sqo9 or the Google Play store (for Android phones): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.changecollective.tenpercenthappier · If you are new to Ten Percent Happier, tap Get Started to register an account. (If you already have an account you’ll need to tap Sign In at the bottom of the screen.) · You should be prompted to Join the Challenge after registering your account. Just tap on the Join Challenge button and follow the prompts. · If you don’t join the Challenge during registration, within the app tap the Join Challenge banner at the bottom of the screen and follow the prompts. · If you don’t see Join Challenge in the app you can also join on a mobile device by tapping this link: https://10percenthappier.app.link/NewYearsChallenge21 Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/newyear-challenge-kickoff-309