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Cultivating self-compassion isn’t just a feel-good practice; it’s an essential ingredient for genuine healing and transformation in our lives.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a powerful Havening exercise designed to soothe your heart, mind, and body while boosting your self-compassion in real, tangible ways. Havening, a psychosensory healing technique, offers a transformative approach to building a compassionate relationship with yourself.

This Havening exercise also incorporates iffirmations—a more grounded and authentic take on affirmations—to help you gently and supportively open up to greater self-compassion.

Dive in now and start cultivating more self-compassion today!

In this episode:

• Self-Compassion: A Pathway to True Healing
• Havening Exercise to Cultivate More Self-Compassion
  • Self-Havening to regulate and drop in
  • Cultivating compassion for your struggles
  • Iffirmations to Cultivate Self-Compassion

Learn all about Iffirmations here

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Iffirmations to Cultivate More Self-Compassion:

• Iffirmations to normalize/humanize your struggle:
  • What if it’s okay to feel this way right now?
  • What if lots of people struggle like this sometimes?
  • What if there’s nothing wrong with me for feeling this way?
  • What if my reaction here actually makes sense in a way?
  • What if I can soften my heart to myself and this moment exactly as it is?
  • What would it be like to acknowledge what I’m really feeling right now and love myself anyway?
  • What if I can stop fighting with what is?
  • What would it be like to just accept my feelings right now?
  • What if I can love and accept myself even though I’m struggling?
• Iffirmations to soften towards yourself:
  • What if I can soften my heart towards myself today?
  • What if I can start to accept myself where I am and as I am?
  • What would it be like if I learned to honor myself, imperfections and all?
  • Who would I become if I could release my self-judgment and foster self-understanding instead?
  • What I can become a steady source of love and compassion in my life?
  • What if I can have my back even when things are hard?
  • What if I can be patient with myself?
  • What if self-compassion is my best route forward?
  • What if I truly and deeply deserve compassion?
  • What if I truly and deeply deserve compassion, because …

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• @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube
• helloinnerlight.com
• Somatic Healing Meditations homepage
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