In today's meditation, we'll learn how to be more compassionate and kind with ourselves through mindfulness and loving kindness.  

Self-compassion allows us to soften and be kind to ourselves so we can clear our minds and open up to learning from our failures and how to be more skillful when we try again.  

Failure and mistakes are inevitable and necessary at the same time.  It is through mistakes and failures that we learn and improve. Although we know this to be true, every time we make a mistake or feel like we failed we judge ourselves, feel inadequate, less than perfect, experience low self-worth and self-esteem ,or even feel unworthy of love and respect. 

When we practice self-compassion we can decrease the suffering that comes from these feelings, accept reality as it is, and have confidence to try again. 

You can find the corresponding discussion on failure and how we deal with it in episode 16 of the Mindful Agility podcast at https://mindfulagility.com.