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I'd like to say a few words about
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compassion compassion means recognizing
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the suffering of others recognizing your
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own suffering and doing something about
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it the word compassion literally means
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to suffer with and most of us are pretty
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good at that pretty good at shouldering
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difficult times alongside others
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responding with kindness and
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understanding that's a great way to be
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because suffering is is common to all
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Humanity we we all go through difficult
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times we can show compassion to others
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by offering a listening ear with
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practical help and growing strong
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connections it's also important to have
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compassion for ourselves and this is
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about how we treat ourselves when we go
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through difficulties setbacks
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failures or just some something negative
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that happens that makes us feel badly
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about ourselves when we're feeling badly
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about ourselves most of us respond by
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beating ourselves up with words like
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you're dumb you're weak you're useless
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no one likes
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you words that are not true and not
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helpful practicing self-compassion can
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help by bringing balance to those
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negative thoughts so for example if you
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fail your run test instead of beating
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yourself up you can respond to yourself
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with kindness and understanding just
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like you were a friend who's perhaps
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going through the same thing you can say
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to yourself yep you
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failed but you gave it all you
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got and you're going to get it next time
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you can do
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this practicing compassion for others
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and for ourselves is an Incredible
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strength that builds resilience and
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fortitude if this is something that
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you're struggling with I encourage you
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to find someone to talk to reach out get
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some help
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we're in this together