I susbscribe to a few email newsletter including one from The Happiness Diet, from Dr Tim Sharp who you might have seen on the ABC TV series ‘Making Australia Happy’ last year.
(I haven’t signed up for the diet, by the way, just like reading the free email newsletters.)
The topic was learning to love yourself, and one of the tips was:
Be careful of what you say to yourself and try not to say anything you wouldn’t say to
your dearest friend or most loved family member
This is so true!! It made me think of the piece of paper I carry with me every day in my purse. The whole story can be read here.
And I think this really relates very strongly to the topic of ‘kindness’ on Maxabella’s 52 Weeks of Grateful over at Kidspot.
Our inner voices can make a huge difference to how we feel each day.
Are you speaking kindly to yourself?
Are you loving, encouraging, warm, caring when you talk to yourself?
And being kind to ourselves doesn’t mean indulging too much in stuff that makes us unwell, sluggish, sick. It means having balance.
It means heaps of veggies!!
It means being gentle, persistent, respectful, thoughtful in our actions towards ourselves and in the words we say only to ourselves.
Be kind to yourself. Others might follow your example.
So, tonight I’m grateful for the reminder that I deserve a kind inner voice, and for the piece of paper in my handbag.
Are you kind to yourself?
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I think… well, put it this way – you can help what you say, but you can’t help what you think! I find it impossible to censor my own thoughts, no matter what I do. Whatever the topic, there they are and squashing them down only seems o make them louder! x
Lovely post, Seana, and a great lesson. I think I am doing better with this than I used to but I could always get better at it.
Me too, me too…. I try to repeat a mantra to myself some days: ‘gentle and kind, gentle and kind.’ Hmmm…. definitely improving with age on this one.
I’m learning to speak much more kindly to myself, and it has made a huge difference in every area of my life. It is nice to finally hear the voice inside is in my corner. x
Great, nice way to think of ourselves, as being in our corner. Lovely to see you over here on this new blog.
So true – my inner voice does more damage than anything anyone else says.
And it can also lift you up, keep you steady, make you smile… often need to remind myself that I am the person closest to myself, as it were, am my own best pal.