Forgive Yourself

Are you hard on yourself?

The Practice:

Forgive Yourself.

Why?

Everyone messes up. Me, you, the neighbors, everybody.

It’s important to acknowledge mistakes, learn from them so they don’t happen again, and feel appropriate remorse. But most people keep beating themselves up way past the point of usefulness: they’re unfairly self-critical.

Inside the mind are many sub-personalities. For example, one part of me sets the alarm clock for 6 am to get up and exercise . . . and then when it goes off, anot...