The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook

Savoring involves noticing and appreciating the positive aspects of life—taking them in, letting them linger, and then letting them go. It is more than pleasure—savoring involves mindful awareness of the experience of pleasure. In other words, being aware that something good is happening while it’s happening.

Why is mindfulness an essential component of self-compassion? Because we need to be able to turn toward and acknowledge when we’re suffering, to “be” with our pain long enough to respond with care and kindness. While

Another way to describe the three essential elements of self-compassion is loving (self-kindness), connected (common humanity) presence (mindfulness). When

Recently there has been a movement in psychology that focuses on finding the most effective ways to help people cultivate positive emotions, and two powerful practices that have been identified are savoring and gratitude.

{That’s common humanity.

apply the three core components of self-compassion—mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness— when difficulties arise in our lives.

Gratitude involves recognizing, acknowledging, and being grateful for the good things in our lives. If we just focus on what we want but don’t have, we’ll remain in a negative state of mind. But when we focus on what we do have, and give thanks for it, we radically reframe our experience.

Progress really means dropping the idea of progress. We

Mindfulness focuses primarily on acceptance of experience. Self-compassion focuses more on caring for the experiencer.