3 Ways To Treat Yourself Better

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3 Ways To Treat Yourself Better There are three pillars of self-compassion: mindfulness, common humanity and self-kindness. Exercising these components can help you deal with the loss of a job or relationship, or even just cultivate more self-compassion everyday. Here, we'll explain what each of these pillars mean, and show you how to apply them to your daily life, with a journal exercise from the book "Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind." 5 Old-Time Diseases Still Around Today Could Your Hairdresser Save Your Life? WATCH: Your Eye In Slow Motion Pap Smears Best For Detecting Cervical Cancer: Doctors BLOG POSTS Mark Hyman, MD: Eat Your Medicine: Food As Pharmacology What you put at the end of your fork is more powerful medicine than anything you will find at the bottom of a pill bottle. Food is the most powerful medicine available to heal chronic disease. Sloan Barnett: 5 Health Dangers Under Your Sink Just 50 years ago, most chemicals found under our sinks existed only in chemistry labs. Today, we consider them essential to modern life. John Whyte, M.D., MPH: The Health-Related Reason Men Should Get Married (And Women Shouldn't) For anyone on the fence about getting married, there is new data that may assist in your decision to take that walk down the aisle or not. Dr. Karen Becker: What You Need To Know About Feeding Your Aging Pet Your dog's diet should meet his individual nutritional requirements, which may or may not be similar to other dogs his age.

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