Just the feeling that we're putting good into the world gives us more reasons to say,

I am worthwhile. I'm bringing good energy into this world.

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Are you struggling to like yourself today?

I have 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, Jamesson. 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. I think we get obsessed

with our mise. We think that by addressing our mise, that by addressing the concerns we have,

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