Learn to rise above praise and criticism. #shorts #headspace #mindfulness

Praise and criticism are two sides of the same coin. If we believe in one, then we must also believe in the other. Better not to get too attached to either of them. I think this is really useful idea to carry around in our life. It's tempting to be very attached to the ideas or the people that praise us. And to have a lot of aversion, a lot of resistance to the ideas or the people that criticize us in some way. Naturally, we tend to lean more towards the sense of praise. But as long as we're caught up in this cycle where we are relying on praise to feel good, and we are susceptible to feeling bad when somebody criticizes us, then we're in a very delicate, very fragile sort of position in life. If we're able to sort of go beyond those things, to understand that yeah, sometimes people are going to say nice things, sometimes people aren't things. And to be able to respond and engage with that, but at the same time for not to really shake our sense of — contentment, our sense of ease, then that's a real sort of place of stability, a feeling of groundedness that we can come back to, no matter what's going on in our life.