Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy

• Self-compassion is a powerful ally.

Mindfulness awakens us to life — not just the challenges, but also the boundless beauty.

Can I relax 5 percent more? Trust 5 percent more?” And if 5 percent feels like too much: “Can I do 1 percent?”

1. Intention directs the compass of our heart, reflecting our deepest hopes and values. 2. Attention trains and stabilizes our mind in the present moment. 3. Attitude refers to how we pay attention — with an attitude of kindness and curiosity.

Perfection isn’t possible, but transformation is.

Mindfulness reconnects us with our intention — with what is most important. It returns our attention to the present moment. And it helps us see clearly with an attitude of kindness and curiosity, instead of judgment and shame.

We must change our mind-set from one of self-improvement to one of self-liberation. Self-liberation means freedom from our limiting beliefs, our misguided idea that there is something wrong with us that needs to be “fixed.” Our constant attempts to “get it right” and to be “perfect” leave us in a state of exhaustion, never resting in the present mo

Kindness matters

“Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me,”