Self-compassion. This is simply the application of compassion toward yourself, often with related feelings, such as a sense that many others have difficulties and pains like your own. Studies have shown that self-compassion lowers stress and self-criticism while increasing resilience and self-worth. -Hardwiring Happiness

 

Self-compassion. This is simply the application of compassion toward yourself, often with related feelings, such as a sense that many others have difficulties and pains like your own. Studies have shown that self-compassion lowers stress and self-criticism while increasing resilience and self-worth.
—Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness