The Kindness Method: Changing Habits for Good

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Taking place over three invigorating and empowering sessions, this course will help you to create an honest snapshot of where you are today, gain clarity on where you would like to go, and really understand what might be standing in your way – and how to overcome it. here, invoking milk to relate to womanhood and motherhood to something hardened and undesirable like gall (which is another word for bile). The last literary device is probably a metaphor. It's comparing Macbeth's nature (or personality) to be filled with the milk of human kindness. Just finished watching and transcribing the interview with Shahroo Izadi ( The Kindness Method) being interviewed by Steven Bartlett ( Diary of a CEO). Incredible! I can’t recommend it enough, especially for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and wanted to punch it or burst into tears. I’ve spent the last four days with them transcribing this and making the graphics. (I’ll finish this week.) Everything in bold after the intro will become a graphic eventually. This is one of about 14 so far. From the beginning I’d notice this book will be excellent for not only addiction but for general personal growth.

I got more out of this book than I have in ALL of the other things I have done combined. That is not hyperbole; it is the straight truth. I first saw the author on a podcast, and I felt like somehow - she had been in my head the last two and a half decades. She knew all of the things I've said to myself, how I beat myself up, how much time and energy I've spent throughout my entire adult life trying to get this under control. It was such a relief to know that someone really, truly gets it. I've never felt that kind of understanding before and even though it was a stranger talking on a podcast, there was something very healing in just knowing that someone else has been there and has thought and felt the same things I've thought and felt (which alone would have been worth the price of the book). But, even better than her true understanding - is her truly incredible, completely insightful, life-changing "advice" (I hate to call it advice, because that doesn't do it justice). I immediately bought her two books (this one and The Last Diet). In this case, the "human kindness" is being objectified into milk. So we're also dealing with a symbol here now. So we ask ourselves, what is milk? Milk represents food for an infant, something nourishing and gentle. This is further explored when several lines later in the "Come Ye Spirits" soliloquy Lady Macbeth asks to The rhythm has a double iamb ( it is too full), an anapest ( o’ the milk), and a ‘feminine’ ending ( kindness): x x / / x x / x / x / xThe next time you catch yourself saying something unkind to yourself about your body, consider these three things," Shahroo suggests.

It is worth noting that both these devices, paronomasia and motif, are akin to each other: they act by layering meanings. In the first, the mechanism is verbal. Many disparate senses of human kindness work together to build a complex network of meaning. In the second, the mechanism is that of the image. Through strategic repetition, the image accretes a cluster of meanings and associations. The phrase the milk of human kindness brings both these devices together in a highly compressed way, in a remarkable example of Shakespeare's rhetorical dexterity. We are somewhat surprised to hear from her that Macbeth is “too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”, because in the whole drama we find no trace of this milk of human kindness. We have to assume that the lady still has an over-high opinion of her husband, which, however, she will shortly lose. We already know him as a ruthlessly determined “murderer in thought” and as a perfect hypocrite: this nature of his is not contradicted by the letter; it is only somewhat veiled in it. The lady knows immediately what he wants; she also knows and openly confesses that his “milk of human kindness” will not deter him from attempting the death of old King Duncan, but only from “catching the nearest way”, that is, doing the deed with his own hand. I've listened to both books in their entirety and am beginning to work through the exercises (which she refers to mostly as "maps") and I'll tell you - I've never done anything that has been so impactful (and I have boxes and boxes of journals, workbooks, and notebooks from all of the crap I've done). Even though I'm in the beginning stages of treating myself in a better way - with WAY MORE KINDNESS - I'm already seeing absolutely huge impacts! And, not *just* with my health (even though my weight is finally going down for the first time (FINALLY!) because I'm treating it in the ways it deserves along with being very mindful of how I think about myself and the things I say). My overall self-esteem is better, I just landed a great new job that I would not have had the confidence to try and get, and even my family has said they can tell a difference in how much happier I am. I actually got tears in my eyes yesterday because the thought that I actually give a sh*t about myself and actually like who I am and (gasp!) even LOVE myself for the first time in my 47 years. It was a cool (and weird) feeling, and this book has helped me experience it. What are the common traps you fall into when making changes? How can you combat them? You will learn how to stay on the lookout for your self-sabotaging behaviours and pinpoint where and how things have gone wrong in the past. Shahroo will be on hand as a guide to your conversations, and will be available for any advice or questions you may have. If there’s a difference, you might want to think about speaking to yourself in a kinder and more reasonable way. Do the paperclip challengeFor one person, negative self-talk could be fixating on every tiny mistake they made during a work presentation earlier that day while they lay in bed, however for someone else it might be telling themselves they look bad when they walk past a mirror. The work she does has also drawn the attentions of BBC radio, the Telegraph and Red magazine to name a few. Unsurprisingly it’s a very appealing concept and the book has been very successful reaching top spot in a number of categories.