Many students would benefit from a little more self-kindness and self-compassion. The ways in which you approach studying can add greatly to its inherent challenges and difficulties.
Select the headings below and consider which, if any, apply to you.
3 strategies for building self-kindness
Pause for thought
- How does your approach to study add to pressures you are under?
- How could you be kinder to yourself in the way you think about or approach study?
- Do you ever drive yourself to achieve, to the extent that you lack compassion for what your mind or body really need? If so, how does that lack of self-kindness manifest itself?
Record your observations and reflect upon them. What do they tell you about yourself and your approach to study?
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