Applying Loving Kindness to Your Strong Emotions
Welcome to Day 2 of the Inner Peace Leadership Challenge in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month (Day 1 – Tolerating Distress).
What is loving kindness?
One of my favorite explanations is from Jack Kornfield. He says loving kindness is “finding self-forgiveness, releasing shame and guilt, and loving ourselves for exactly who we are”.
Today is all about BEING with your strong emotions (anger, sadness, guilt, anxiety, etc) with LOVING KINDNESS.
Ancient wisdom would describe this as being in the Both/And – feeling the strong emotion AND applying loving kindness to your strong emotions simultaneously.
Evidence-based research would describe this as a Mindfulness-Based practice of awareness and self-compassion.
Today’s Inner Peace Leadership Challenge…
Try this powerful life-changing self-compassion tool in the video below. Then let me know in our Facebook group or in the comments below what you noticed when you applied loving kindness to your strong emotions.
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10 Benefits of Living in Alignment with Loving Kindness
- You will have stronger self-compassion.
- You’ll be able to lower the volume of the inner critic and harsh negative self-talk.
- You’ll be able to stop comparing yourself to others.
- You’ll be able to sit with your strong emotions.
- You’ll create space to let go of overwhelm.
- You’ll have stronger self-worth.
- You will start remembering that you are enough.
- You can own your truth.
- You can release the embarrassment and shame of the not-so-perfect-parts of yourself.
- You can name and celebrate all the ways you have made a difference in people’s lives.