Name: CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II) by The Compassion Initiative
Duration: 14 min 11 s
Description: These tracks feature Dr James Kirby delivering Compassion-Focused Therapy exercises in order to help build individual's own compassionate self.

This exercise on our compassionate image is to help us imagine a compassionate other and open to the flow of receiving compassion. Although you are receiving compassion from this image, it has been generated from within you, so you are in effect both giving and receiving compassion. It is a way of developing an inner guide that you can consult when you are struggling. 

This exercise is taken from The Compassionate Mind Approach to Postnatal Depression by Michelle Cree (Robinson 2015), with permission from the author and Little, Brown Book Group.

Compassionate Image

Soothing breathing rhythm has many functions and provides a support on which other exercises rest. Our breath is always with us so if we can learn to recruit it to help us, we have a powerful way of helping ourselves that is with us all the time.

This exercise is taken from The Compassionate Mind Approach to Postnatal Depression by Michelle Cree (Robinson 2015), recorded with permission from the author and Little, Brown Book Group and can also be downloaded from the resources section of the book.

Soothing Breathing Rhythm

Deepening The Compassionate Self

Compassionate Image And Compassionate Community

Our Ideal Compassionate Other

Introduction to Compassionate Mind Training exercises

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 State

CFT - Leaves On The Stream

CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

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

Welcome to The Compassion Initiative Podcast Series. This Podcast series features Dr Stan Steindl and Dr James Kirby, both Clinical Psychologists. Stan and James are the co-founders of The Compassion Initiative. The podcast series is a relaxed informal ongoing conversation between Stan and James about issues related to compassion. You can access and subscribe to the Podcast on our website: www.thecompassioninitiative.com.au

CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

The Compassion Initiative

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