Shakespeare famously uses this exact same pun on kind (gentle, category) in Hamlet's very first words onstage: So whether it’s something around food, exercise, smoking, drinking or something else, if you follow the process of The Kindness Method, you can make a big difference without feeling like you are having to have incredibly strong will power, and without being cruel to yourself. Catch up recordings will be shared throughout the class and will be available to watch for up to two weeks. kindness' principally means 'kinship', but also connotes 'category' ('kind' = classification, group) Change your definition of kindness from immediate relief and distraction and letting yourself off the hook to doing things you’ll be happy you did tomorrow,” Shahroo says.

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. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. ( Preface to Shakespeare) Regarding your first question, it contains a multitude of different literary devices, but the closest to the "milk of human kindness" is I think a reification. It's defined as aSo when Lady Macbeth says human kindness, one sense of the term is that Macbeth is too much of a human being, too firmly in the category of humanness, to just pursue his own interests at all costs ( catch the nearest way) the way a wild animal might. Tsundoku's answer touches upon this sense, but does not explicitly mention the punning nature of this phrase, hence this follow-up. 1 Lady Macbeth fears that her husband has too much humanity in the sense of "compassion characteristic of humane persons" ( Macbeth, edited by A. R. Braunmuller, 1997).

Life is full of ups and downs and often, they’re out of our control. While we can’t stop things from happening to us, what we can regulate is how we react and treat ourselves in the aftermath. It’s often said that we need to love and care for ourselves, yet many of us overlook that in favour of beating ourselves up. 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. Paronomasia, or more simply, a pun. Kindness typically means gentleness, generosity, and/or helpfulness, which is the most readily accessible sense here. But kind can also mean category, as in: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 / x The Kindness Method shows how by being kind to yourself you can really make a big difference to addictions and bad habits. Tell yourself ‘Today I’m going to make decisions for my mind and body that I’ll be glad I made tomorrow.’ If you have a crutch that you’d like to stop relying on so much, or a habit you feel you need to break entirely, this masterclass with the behavioural change expert Shahroo Izadi is your tonic.

Shahroo Izadi is a behavioural change specialist, speaker, coach and author of The Kindness Method.What I like most about Shahroo is that everything in The Kindness Method is based on real experience. She has made transformational changes in her own life and also helps others too. Shahroo provides relapse prevention coaching and support groups in a recovery house for young women. Still later in the play, Malcolm tests Macduff's sincerity by claiming he is temperamentally unsuitable to be king. The image Malcolm uses for bad governance again that of milk: Her work has drawn attention from BBC Radio 1, The Telegraph, Red Magazine,Forbes, Marie Claire,and more.