Yoga Journal Article on Self-Love

A January Yoga Journal article's title is Nurture the New You. The writer is Dr. Kelly McGonigal, health psychologist and yoga teacher. She says that yoga can lead to self-compassion. People who do yoga, she writes, are more likely to love themselves and not make themselves wrong when they eat too much, skip exercise or yoga, etc. They are not crippled by failure. They care about their own needs and move on from failure. The experience self-love, compassion for themselves and others, joy and equanimity. The Yoga Sutra I.33, she writes, advises to cultivate love for those you are happy (I'd say anyone is the goal), compassion for those who are suffering, joy for those who are viruous, and equanimity for those who make mistakes, including yourself!