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Go easy on yourself!
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends or your family?
That simple question is the basis of new area of psychological research called self-compassion – how kindly people view themselves. People who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to others often score surprisingly low on self-compassion tests. They get angry with themselves for perceived failures like being overweight or not exercising.
Anxious
The research suggests that accepting our imperfections may be the first step toward better health. People who score high on tests of self-compassion have less depression and anxiety, and tend to be happier and more optimistic. Preliminary data suggest that self-compassion can even influence how much we eat and may help some people lose weight.
This idea does to contrast with the advice of many doctors and self-help books, which suggest that willpower and self-discipline are the keys to better health. But Kristin Neff, a pioneer in the field says self-compassion is not to be confused with self-indulgence or lower standards.
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent,” said Dr. Neff, an associate professor of human development at the University of Texas at Austin. “They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”(…)
(FONTE: SpeakUp Magazine #288 page36)
The research mentioned in the text suggests
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Go easy on yourself!
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends or your family?
That simple question is the basis of new area of psychological research called self-compassion – how kindly people view themselves. People who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to others often score surprisingly low on self-compassion tests. They get angry with themselves for perceived failures like being overweight or not exercising.
Anxious
The research suggests that accepting our imperfections may be the first step toward better health. People who score high on tests of self-compassion have less depression and anxiety, and tend to be happier and more optimistic. Preliminary data suggest that self-compassion can even influence how much we eat and may help some people lose weight.
This idea does to contrast with the advice of many doctors and self-help books, which suggest that willpower and self-discipline are the keys to better health. But Kristin Neff, a pioneer in the field says self-compassion is not to be confused with self-indulgence or lower standards.
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent,” said Dr. Neff, an associate professor of human development at the University of Texas at Austin. “They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”(…)
(FONTE: SpeakUp Magazine #288 page36)
In “People who score high on tests of self-compassion have less depression and anxiety, and tend to be happier and more optimistic.” the underlined expressions are:
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Go easy on yourself!
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends or your family?
That simple question is the basis of new area of psychological research called self-compassion – how kindly people view themselves. People who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to others often score surprisingly low on self-compassion tests. They get angry with themselves for perceived failures like being overweight or not exercising.
Anxious
The research suggests that accepting our imperfections may be the first step toward better health. People who score high on tests of self-compassion have less depression and anxiety, and tend to be happier and more optimistic. Preliminary data suggest that self-compassion can even influence how much we eat and may help some people lose weight.
This idea does to contrast with the advice of many doctors and self-help books, which suggest that willpower and self-discipline are the keys to better health. But Kristin Neff, a pioneer in the field says self-compassion is not to be confused with self-indulgence or lower standards.
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent,” said Dr. Neff, an associate professor of human development at the University of Texas at Austin. “They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”(…)
(FONTE: SpeakUp Magazine #288 page36)
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Go easy on yourself!
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends or your family?
That simple question is the basis of new area of psychological research called self-compassion – how kindly people view themselves. People who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to others often score surprisingly low on self-compassion tests. They get angry with themselves for perceived failures like being overweight or not exercising.
Anxious
The research suggests that accepting our imperfections may be the first step toward better health. People who score high on tests of self-compassion have less depression and anxiety, and tend to be happier and more optimistic. Preliminary data suggest that self-compassion can even influence how much we eat and may help some people lose weight.
This idea does to contrast with the advice of many doctors and self-help books, which suggest that willpower and self-discipline are the keys to better health. But Kristin Neff, a pioneer in the field says self-compassion is not to be confused with self-indulgence or lower standards.
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent,” said Dr. Neff, an associate professor of human development at the University of Texas at Austin. “They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”(…)
(FONTE: SpeakUp Magazine #288 page36)
People who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to others often score surprisingly low on self-compassion tests.
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Countdown to seven billionth baby
Today begins the one-week countdown to 31st October when the world population is predicted to reach seven billion.
That's a rise of two billion in less than a quarter century.
Seven days from now the world's seven billionth baby will be born. That's according to the UN's projections, and it's using the milestone to take stock of trends in population growth.
The big question is how long the planet can continue to satisfy the voracious appetite of its growing number of human inhabitants.
In fact, over the past six decades, the global fertility rate has been cut in half. Statistically from five children per woman to 2.5. But 78 million babies are still being born every year, almost all of them in developing countries.
The UN says women in these countries are having so many babies because of poverty, lack of education, income and access to birth control.
Not only that, they and their children face a high risk of poor health, and early death. So the UN is highlighting the need to boost education and employment opportunities for poor women: in other words, address the poverty, and the demography will look after itself, as it did in Europe.
By Barbara Plett, BBC News, New York
(FONTE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/)
The word milestone on the 3rd paragraph refers to
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Countdown to seven billionth baby
Today begins the one-week countdown to 31st October when the world population is predicted to reach seven billion.
That's a rise of two billion in less than a quarter century.
Seven days from now the world's seven billionth baby will be born. That's according to the UN's projections, and it's using the milestone to take stock of trends in population growth.
The big question is how long the planet can continue to satisfy the voracious appetite of its growing number of human inhabitants.
In fact, over the past six decades, the global fertility rate has been cut in half. Statistically from five children per woman to 2.5. But 78 million babies are still being born every year, almost all of them in developing countries.
The UN says women in these countries are having so many babies because of poverty, lack of education, income and access to birth control.
Not only that, they and their children face a high risk of poor health, and early death. So the UN is highlighting the need to boost education and employment opportunities for poor women: in other words, address the poverty, and the demography will look after itself, as it did in Europe.
By Barbara Plett, BBC News, New York
(FONTE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/)
The reasons the UN says women in developing countries are having so many babies are, EXCEPT: