Hey everyone, my name is Rosie and I'm one of the new hosts of Radio Headspace.

I'm an author and a yoga meditation teacher and my new episodes are debuting February of next year.

I can't wait to share them with you.

In the meantime, I'd like to let you know about a new show from Headspace Studios called Dear Headspace.

It's a call and advice show where Headspace teachers answer questions each week about anything and everything.

We talk about family, relationships, mindfulness and so much more.

You can find Dear Headspace on the Headspace app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

That's Space Studio.

Greetings. My name is Kaisanga and I welcome you this Thursday morning to Radio Headspace.

So I may have mentioned that I teach a course on the university level called MBSR, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction.

The course is designed to teach individuals about mindfulness, its benefits, and help them incorporate a consistent mindfulness meditation practice into their everyday lives.

So I once had a participant that had an excellent observation and concern. They stated that embracing the mindfulness practice can be extremely daunting.

Their schedule was already extremely busy, so fitting this new practice into their already busy schedule was difficult and stressful, not to mention they just weren't used to meditating.

So right away I heard a few things with this observation. Self-judgment jumped out at me immediately. They were being so harsh on themselves and this is often how we operate.

We don't treat ourselves in a space of self-compassion.

I got to thinking about what I call the self-compassion spectrum.

On one end of the spectrum is that area of harsh self-deprecating talk. The, I'm not good enough or I'm never going to get this. I'm not smart enough. I'm not calm enough.

Etc. Etc. On the other end of the spectrum is indulgent complacency. So how does this indulgent complacency look?

It's like waking up in the morning, knowing you want to and need to work out or meditate, but saying to yourself, I'm tired. And Kaisanga said to be gentle with myself and rolling back over to sleep.

And repeating this pattern day after day after day.

So asking yourself, where on this spectrum do you fall? The idea here is to land somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.

And nobody is perfect, so more than anything, the idea is to be aware of where you're at on the spectrum moment by moment.

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