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Okay, we haven't had much jingle drama lately.

Have you noticed that?

I'm okay with that.

But I do want to share something that a friend sent me that I think you will enjoy.

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Hey, welcome to this podcast, the place where we practice being human together. If I could start a slow clap for that without it sounding awkward over audio. I totally would.

B.J. Jones, thank you for that. Awesome. Let's get into our episode today.

We will start with the bells. When I ring the bells, bring your full focus, your

full presence, your full awareness to the sound of the bell from that microsecond that it begins

all the way until it dissolves into silence,

as always paying attention as if this were the most important thing in the world right now. The Okay, so today's episode is going to build off of yesterday's topic where we introduced self-compassion.

And as you remember if you listened, we said there were three keys to self-compassion as described by the researcher Kristen Neff.

The first is self-kindness, so being able to not get totally caught up in judgment

toward ourselves. The second is recognizing a common humanity where oftentimes

when we're frustrated with ourselves we think we're the only one going through that

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