Episode 188 — I Open Myself to Quiet CompassionToday we practice opening ourselves to quiet compassion — the soft, warm kind that settles over you without demand. This episode guides you through gentle breathwork and spoken affirmations designed to help you release harsh self-judgment and embrace tenderness for every part of who you are.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SHOW NOTES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━EPISODE THEMEOpening the heart to quiet compassion — the gentle, non-demanding kind that asks nothing of you except to receive it.AFFIRMATIONS IN THIS EPISODE• I open myself to quiet compassion.• I release the need to prove my worth to anyone, including myself.• I am learning to hold my hardest parts with tenderness.• I speak kindly to myself and choose words that build rather than tear down.• I open my heart to compassion for my body, my emotions, and my imperfections.• I release the belief that I must always be strong.• I am allowed to rest without earning it first.• I choose gentleness over criticism, patience over urgency, compassion over judgment.• I am growing in ways I cannot always perceive, and that is enough.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS[00:00] Opening — You are enough exactly as you are[01:30] Settling In — Arriving in the moment with breath[03:15] Affirmations Part One — Releasing the need to prove worth[05:00] Breathwork — Inhale for four, hold for four, release for six[06:00] Affirmations Part Two — Compassion for body and emotions[08:00] Breathwork — Warm golden light visualization[09:30] Affirmations Part Three — Embracing imperfection and growth[11:00] Closing — Carry this compassion with you━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BREATHWORK4-4-6 breathing pattern: Inhale 4 counts, hold 4 counts, release 6 counts. Repeat throughout the episode to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and promote deep relaxation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF…• You tend to be hard on yourself when you make mistakes• You feel like you must earn rest or happiness• You want to develop a gentler inner voice• You are working on emotional healing and self-acceptance• You need a few minutes of stillness and warmth━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━PRODUCED BYHustleStudios — 24/7 Self Affirmations Podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━DISCLAIMERThis episode is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional mental health care. If you are experiencing persistent mental health challenges, please consult a qualified healthcare provider.#selfcompassion #gentlehealing #selfworth #affirmations #meditation #mindfulness #healingjourney #selfcare #peace #compassionDISCLAIMER 📢24/7 Self Affirmations and Meditations is an independent production by HustleStudios. The stories and topics discussed are for entertainment and informational purposes only. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect HustleStudios or its affiliates.Some names and details may be altered to protect privacy. Listener discretion advised. All content protected under copyright law.This episode might be ad-supported. Support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes, early access, and exclusive promos.👉 Check our Patreon👉 Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts📻 Listen to Hustle Studios Radio 24/7!🎧 radio.hustlestudios.net/live🔊 All our podcasts — playing back to back, anytime!

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