170 // More Tips to Help You Accept Yourself

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 170 of The Mindful Kind podcast!

This is part 2 of the self-acceptance episode, so if you haven't tuned in to episode 169 yet, be sure to check it out first to hear the first 4 self-acceptance tips.

More self-acceptance tips:

Tip 5: Focus on your strengths, skills and qualities. Try to acknowledge your strengths and accept compliments from others. Check out episode 21 of The Mindful Kind podcast to find out more about gratitude and training ourselves to look for the good things in life.

Tip 6: Improve your self-talk by replacing self-criticism with kind and encouraging thoughts.

Tip 7: Spend time with people who encourage you to accept yourself.

Tip 8: Be self-compassionate. Tune in to episode 153 of The Mindful Kind to learn more about self-compassion, including what it is and what it looks like. Also, if you are looking for guidance on being more self-compassionate, be sure to check out my meditation album about self-compassion: http://www.rachaelkable.com/selfcompassion-album

Tip 9: Laugh with yourself when you make mistakes.

Tip 10: Do things that make you feel proud of yourself. To find out more about living in a way that aligns with your values, you might enjoy reading The Desire Map by Danielle Laporte.

Tip 11: Set realistic goals to build yourself up and celebrate each step you take towards bigger dreams.

Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey
0:12.3	and inspire you to create your own.
0:14.9	Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,
0:19.7	from my personal experiences to useful tools and different
0:23.6	mindful techniques.
0:29.6	Hello and welcome to episode 170 of the Mindful Kind podcast about self-acceptance.
0:39.8	On episode 169 of the Mindful Kind, I shared an introduction to being more accepting of yourself
0:47.2	and my first four tips for growing your sense of self-acceptance.
0:52.4	Tip one was to know that you deserve to accept yourself.
0:56.8	Tip two was to be curious about improving instead of beating yourself up over mistakes.
1:02.8	Tip three was to celebrate your perceived shortcomings and flaws and tip four was to be proud
1:10.2	of being unique. If you haven't tuned into that episode yet,
1:14.8	I highly recommend that you check it out first. I've got a few more tips to share, so let's just
1:20.6	dive straight into it. Tip five, focus on your qualities and strengths. So on the last episode I talked about acknowledging and even
1:30.4	celebrating your perceived shortcomings. And I think it is also really important to recognize your
1:37.2	strengths. So often I tend to focus on the things I want to change and work on, which can be helpful, but I know I tend to
1:47.1	neglect recognising my strengths. And I've heard from a few people that they also struggle with this.
1:53.6	Perhaps it feels easier to look at what we can improve than to actually feel proud and confident
1:59.8	about what we're good at. However, choosing to
2:03.2	focus on our shortcomings regularly and forgetting to focus on our strengths is likely going
2:10.2	to make us feel like we're not good enough. So, for example, I'm quite good at cooking,
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