{"id":728,"date":"2015-10-27T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=728"},"modified":"2016-06-25T23:10:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T06:10:51","slug":"be-kind-to-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2015\/10\/27\/be-kind-to-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Kind &#8230; To Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dalai Lama famously said,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalailamaquotes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">(www.dalailamaquotes.org)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kindness, compassion, patience, and understanding, all seem to arise naturally when we see the\u00a0suffering of another person. And yet &#8230; when confronted with our own suffering, we often respond in other ways, with judgment, criticism, or anger.<\/p>\n<p>Is this dichotomy helpful? Do we really benefit by treating ourselves differently? Isn&#8217;t it possible that\u00a0by setting boundaries on the kindness we show ourselves, we also set subconscious boundaries on the kindness we are able to show to others?<\/p>\n<p>Kindness starts at home.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/meditation-be-kind-to-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\">simple instructions<\/a><\/strong> for a meditation\u00a0on being kind to yourself courtesy of Kristin Neff (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lion&#8217;s Roar<\/a>, 9 Oct 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/meditation-be-kind-to-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be Kind to Yourself<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dalai Lama famously said,\u00a0&#8220;Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.&#8221; (www.dalailamaquotes.org) Kindness, compassion, patience, and understanding, all seem to arise naturally when we see the\u00a0suffering of another person. And yet &#8230; when confronted with our own suffering, we often respond in other ways, with judgment, criticism, or anger. Is this dichotomy helpful? Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,18,8],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-compassion","tag-instructions","tag-kindness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}