Are you struggling to like yourself today?

I've experienced that feeling of self-loathing,

the feeling that you have made mistakes,

that you have regrets, things that you consistently beat yourself up over, self-flagulate.

One of the practical ways to begin liking ourselves more,

I think this is important because it's not just some psychological shift

liking ourselves more, there is a kind of practical side of it, which is like literally doing

push-ups for your confidence. One of the ways to like ourselves more is to do acts of kindness

for other people. Studies have shown that when people are given two sets of things to do,

one of them being self-serving and one of them being serving of others,

the acts of kindness towards other people consistently increase people's levels of happiness more

than the things that they do that are self-serving. We go through life, I think,

believing the opposite of this, it's certainly we often act as if the opposite were true. We

go through life doing things for ourselves, constantly indulging our own problems, our own

suffering. I heard it said recently by a I think a monk, a guy that was on Sam Harris's

podcast, Jameson, maybe we can put up his name here, but he talks about them as his mise,

the moments where he becomes obsessed with what he needs, what he wants, what's wrong with

his life, his mise. Now I think we get obsessed with our mise. We think that by addressing our mise,

that by addressing the concerns we have and the problems we have all the time,

that that's what's going to make us happier, but what really does make us happy,

what does make us like ourselves more and something I think we've lost touch with is

the moments of kindness, the acts of kindness we do for other people, because when we do something

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