Selfless Part 4: Building Self-Compassion

This is a series of podcasts that explores the many benefits of being Self-Less. In this final podcast of this series, we look at how we might go about practising self-compassion. We explore Kristin Neff’s formulation of self-compassion practice. She defines it as involving three elements -  Mindfulness or present-focused, non-judgemental awareness. Common Humanity - the understanding that one’s experience is similar to others, that we are not alone; and Self-Kindness (using kind gestures, phrases or actions toward oneself). Once again, loving-kindness meditation is suggested as very useful as is the practice of talking kindly to oneself in the third person - a practice known as Illeism.