Name: CFT - Building Our Compassionate Self (Part 1) by The Compassion Mind Research Group (CMRG) Podcast
Duration: 11 min 13 s
Description: These tracks feature Dr James Kirby delivering Compassion-Focused Therapy exercises in order to help build individual's own compassionate self.

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

CFT - Soothing Rhythm Breathing

CFT - Compassionate Image

CFT - Building Our Compassionate Self (Part 1)

CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

15-Minute Guided Practice: Turning Towards Difficulty

Connection NO MUSIC

This practice helps us harness the power of our breath to soothe and calm ourselves.

Soothing rhythm breathing

This is an imagery practice that uses our brain's ability to imagine things (and it's inability to know the difference between reality and what is imagined) to move toward soothing.

Compassionate colour

The compassionate ideal image

Loving Kindness Meditation (12 mins) – Rene Frey-Jennings

This video follows on from the previous two videos about The Compassionate Friend. However, here, Dr Stan Steindl discusses creating the "ideal compassionate other." This involves imagining an ideal being, without human weaknesses or flaws, who is exactly the kind of compassionate other that we want and would feel most helpful. If you would like to write your thoughts and ideas down on the "Creating Your Ideal Compassionate Other" handout mentioned in the video, go to the link below to download the PDF. And if you would like to watch the original video, you can find it here: https://youtu.be/TKdb_1IcC5s


Creating Your Ideal Compassionate Other Handout:
https://psychologyconsultants-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/stan_psychologyconsultants_com_au/Ebm1vW2kVp5AhMiSTC9Ypy0BJqViUIMIOr7xLWwnsmAJXQ?e=vO7VeN

Creating Your Ideal Compassionate Other (or The Compassionate Friend - Part 3)

Welcome to The Compassion Mind Research Group Podcast Series. This Podcast series is from the Compassionate Mind Research Group lab at the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. The podcast series is aimed to share research news about compassion, as well as compassion imagery and meditation tracks of compassion, which we use in our research. You can check out our lab here: https://psychology.uq.edu.au/research/labs-groups/compassionate-mind

CFT - Building Our Compassionate Self (Part 1)

The Compassion Mind Research Group (CMRG) Podcast

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