I’m a deeply compassionate person to all those around me, however I’m so self critical to the point of self abuse. This section has helped me to visualise the manifestation of my self critic and how unhelpful and destructive it is.

This exercise is basic to change your inner voice. How you treat yourself reflects on how you treat others.

I do self criticism a lot. They aren't caring supportive and helpful.

If I gave up self criticism, I'd feel liberated and carefree. I don't think at this stage in my life I'd worry about being lazy (I'd like to thin)

In this practice we work with 1) posture, 2) soothing rhythm breathing, 3) developing compassionate self. There is more space and less spoken word to the previous track I uploaded

Compassionate Self Practice

Postures, Faces And Voice Tones

Deepening The Compassionate Self

Compassionate Image And Compassionate Community

Building The Compassionate Self

Addressing Self Crticism

Soothing Rhythm Breathing

These tracks feature Dr James Kirby delivering Compassion-Focused Therapy exercises in order to help build individual's own compassionate self.

CFT - Compassionate State

CFT - Safe Place Imagery

Paul Gilbert
Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy

Paul Gilbert is a pioneer of compassion-focused therapy. He’s a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Derby. In his work, he has drawn on insights from Buddhist tradition as well as evolutionary psychology. His compassion training teaches people to quieten critical or hostile inner voices in order to treat themselves more kindly. That can mean working on breath, posture and tone of voice. Learning to feel compassion towards ourselves is a skill that can be taught.

Cultivating the Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert

This is a guided audio practice of the Soothing Rhythm Breathing practice from Compassion Focused Therapy Founder Paul Gilbert. This form of meditative breathing is a close cousin to mindful breathing, with an emphasis that relates to the aims of cultivating compassion.  It is advisable to work with a therapist or teacher when engaging these exercises. It is also a good idea to learn more about this practice in its context through any of the CFT series of books. To find out more, visit mindfulcompassion.com.

The Compassionate Mind Foundation promotes wellbeing by facilitating the scientific understanding and application of compassion. We are a charitable organisation that supports research and teaching of an evolution and contemplative informed compassion-focused approach to human difficulty. We also support individuals with training and resources and run specific programmes to apply a compassionate approach in both schools and organisations.

Addressing Self Crticism

Compassionate Mind Foundation

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