January often brings the post-Christmas blues and a struggle to keep New Year's resolutions. This article explores the science behind self-compassion and how it can help you achieve your goals. It emphasizes the importance of kindness to oneself, replacing self-criticism with a supportive mindset, and setting clear, specific goals aligned with your values.
The post-Christmas blues are kicking in, January is a difficult month and you have already set yourself some seriously ambitious plans for the New Year.
We spoke to chartered health psychologist Sabina Brennan on all the ways to genuinely help you stay on track this New Year and here is everything she had to say.Swapping self-criticism for self-kindness is key. No matter what our specific resolutions are at the most basic level we all seek happiness and contentment which happen to be among the many benefits of self-compassion. Just by being kind to yourself, you’re immediately on to a winner.
The good news is that self-criticism is just a habit and habits can be changed through the likes of mindfulness meditation and loving-kindness meditation.Being clear about what you want to achieve and having very specific goals sets you up for success. The key is to get a clear definition of what you want, write it down, visualise it, figure out the specific actions you need to take.
Clearly defining what you want to achieve and outlining the steps that you need to take to get there removes ambiguity and can give you a more defined path toward your goal making you more sure of what you have to do and making it easier to start working toward it.
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