25 // Self-compassion and Mindfulness

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

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

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 25 of The Mindful Kind podcast!

Discover why self-compassion was such an important part of my mindfulness practice, especially when I was a beginner.

You'll also learn about three different exercises you can use to be more compassionate towards yourself, including talking kindly to yourself, writing down why mindfulness is useful to you whenever you remember to practice and letting go of hurtful thoughts.

For more tips about letting go of hurtful thoughts, check out my blog article here:

http://www.rachaelkable.com/blog/mindfully-letting-go-of-hurtful-thoughts

To sign up for The Mindful Kind Challenge, click here:

http://www.rachaelkable.com/themindfulkindchallenge/

And to join me for a live workshop in Melbourne about mindfulness and goal-setting, by purchasing your ticket here:

http://www.rachaelkable.com/upcoming-events/

Transcript

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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.
0:32.0	Hi and welcome to episode 25 of the Mindful Kind podcast. I hope you're having a beautiful day wherever you are
0:40.5	and that you're as excited as I am to explore today's topic. So for this episode, I'm going to chat about
0:48.7	why self-compassion is so important in our mindfulness practices. But first, I just wanted to mention that if you love
0:56.6	these podcasts and would like to work with me a little more, head over to my website at www.
1:02.8	www. rachelcable.com and click on the work with me section to find out about my upcoming Melbourne
1:10.5	workshop and the Mindful
1:12.9	Kind Challenge. I'm also going to open up my one-on-one coaching session soon for a really
1:20.1	limited number of clients. So feel free to stay tuned by subscribing to my weekly newsletter.
1:28.2	Okay. Now, I wanted to talk about self-compassion in this episode
1:32.9	because it has been a really important element of my own mindfulness practice.
1:39.5	Without it, my journey with mindfulness would have been a whole lot harder.
1:47.7	So where does self-compassion play a role in my mindfulness practice? Let me share a quick story to explain. Especially when I first started
1:55.6	practicing mindfulness, I was really quite critical of myself.
2:04.1	It felt like I was so hopeless at being mindful because I could only stay focused on the moment for maybe five seconds before it would wander
2:10.0	off again.
2:11.0	I was getting more and more frustrated because I felt like I kept missing opportunities
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