Compassion
As Byron Brown, the author of Soul without Shame, so eloquently
stated, “Compassion is the greatest antidote to the poison of your
pathological inner critic.” When you are being compassionate toward
yourself, you essentially gag your pathological inner critic, who cannot
tolerate compassion because it renders him powerless.
Compassion is the essence of self-esteem. When you have compassion for yourself, you understand and accept yourself the way you
are. You tend to see yourself as basically good. If you make a mistake,
you forgive yourself. You have reasonable expectations of yourself. You
set attainable goals.
Self discovery requires self-awareness—or an ongoing attention to
one’s self. In order to truly pay attention to oneself for the purposes of
self-discovery, it is important to take on a neutral stance. When you
observe yourself in this way, you take in whatever you notice about
yourself with impartiality, interest, and curiosity, but you do not judge
what you observe.
Culled from Healing your emotional self by beverly Engel
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde
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