Compassion

Coming Out of Depression

CFT exercises

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

CFT - Posture, Facial Expressions, And Voice Tone

CFT - Soothing Rhythm Breathing

CFT - Mindful Breathing

CFT - Compassionate State

CFT - Safe Place Imagery

CFT - Compassionate Image

CFT - Leaves On The Stream

CFT - Building Our Compassionate Self (Part 1)

CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

Welcome to the first episode of The Fierce Compassion Podcast. Brought to you by the Center for Compassion Focused Therapy in New York (mindfulcompassion.com), this podcast involves discussions with leading psychologists, authors, artists, spiritual thinkers and musicians about how we can best cultivate compassion and courage in our minds and lives. This moving and vulnerable conversation with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy co-founder Dr. Steven Hayes involves his personal journey in dealing with anxiety and trauma, developing a remarkable synthesis of behavioral science and ancient wisdom drawn from meditation traditions. Steve and Dennis speak for nearly 90 minutes on how we can transform our minds with evidence based methods, and how we can cultivate the fierce compassion we need to face life's challenges. 

Fierce Compassion Episode 1 - A Discussion With Dr. Steven Hayes and host Dr. Dennis Tirch

This is an exercise aimed to help develop your compassionate self. When you do these practices it is important to just play around with them and see how they work for you. If they are difficult it at all, just stop. So as they say, stay in your safe zone. With time these practices become easier.

CFT Compassionate Self Exercise

This 10 minute track is a meditation for therapists and practitioners to assist in cultivating a compassionate motivation and help manage their own self-care.

Cultivating Compassionate Motivation

This imagery exercise is a central practice in Compassion Focused Therapy.  It involves deliberating creating an image of your compassionate mind as a personified being.  The details surrounding the practice can be found in the CFT series from New Harbinger publications.  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.

Compassionate Self Imagery

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