Mindfulness of the Breath Practice (15 mins)– Rachel Tobin

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

CFT - Building Our Compassionate Self (Part 1)

CFT - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

What went well today? Kids and teens can explore this six-minute guided meditation for noticing the positive.

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Mindful Kids Practice: Coming Back to The Positive (8 Min)

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

Track 3 CMT Soothing Rhythm Breathing

frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
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My response to this week's Naviar Haiku challenge, informed by the hot summer we are having down here in Sydney, Australia.

Enjoy!
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Naviar Haiku challenge #312: https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/189860392413/naviarhaiku312-frozen-trough
Poem: Debbie Strange (http://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com)
Picture: Jonathan Knepper (https://unsplash.com/@jknepp)

Warm (naviarhaiku312)

For anyone needing a bit of a pause, support or tenderness, this meditation aims to build resilience through self-compassion. The coronavirus is bringing up so much uncertainty, fear and anxiety that we can meet with self-compassion-- facing our own anxiety and fear with kindness so that we can then extend compassion to others. Self-compassion includes remembering our common humanity: we're in it together. (Self-compassion inspired by Kristin Neff's work)

Meditation: facing what's here with compassion

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)

What a strange, odd, mixed-up year it has been.  The yellow spanner of Covid-19 really wrecked a lot of plans. I was all booked to travel to Estonia to record, but it had to be cancelled.   Very noticeable was the sunlight, perhaps it was because there was few jet trails, but when the day was cloudless the sunlight could be absolutely dazzling, it had the strange effect of making it feel like we were living in paradise.     Because of the restrictions I am so glad the woods is only within a moderate cycle distance from my home.  I am very fortunate that I have two fairly good places to record relatively close by.  I even found a wild sand dune area not even five kilometers away,  I hope to record more there in the future.   Disc 1 track 2 is from a much longer recording, it is probably one of the best recordings made during the 2020 season, I had made a few recordings, near the stream, then a bit less close, then a bit further away and another even further away, as I wanted a sound where the stream was a suggestion rather than really dominating the sound picture.  The Blue Tits nested in a cavity block in the wall of my home, there is an vent on the inside of the block, so I only needed to place the microphone up to that to get a fantastic close perspective recording.  
I include two recordings of the Blue tits as they sounded so different when I recorded them a week later.  Sometimes I would get great results by leaving the old Marantz recorder hidden in a bushy place while I go not too far away to record with the new recorder, I love how I had no idea of what it has captured for me, only later when the track loaded on the computer did I get to see if it captured anything worthwhile.  This was the case with Blackbird - alarm calls (Track 3 on disc 2).  I think the peaks came in at about minus six db.  This year was my first time to use Contact microphones and a Hydrophone.    
At the beginning of April my dad Desmond died, he was 89, a great age.  Apart from Covid, we could see he wasn’t going to live much longer, he had been deteriorating noticeably for months up to that.  Why then are the covers for the two discs so strange ?  
A birdsong production should have birds on it !   My dad was big into sun power and indeed wind power even long before it became popular.  Over by my workshop he had placed a few sun power panels on the wall, these were wired into a small room to a panel on the wall with six switches.  I thought it a good way to remember him by including a picture of part of his panel for disc one front cover.  I was going to include the six switches in the picture, but my heart of hearts said no, it didn’t look good, too much scruffy brown, but I include it in the zipped folder (If you are buying it on Bandcamp)so you can see what I am talking about.  I had almost chosen it, as it occurred to me one morning that the six switches are like the levels of lockdown (I hate that term, but I have to use it here) thankfully we didn’t have a level six, maybe that is like in a movie I saw where the authorities came and boarded up a house with the people still inside.  In the end I used the part of the photo with the meter.   
The butterflies . . . Dessie we call him, was always interested in butterflies, that is where I got my interest in nature, as a child he used to bring us for walks up along the canal to see the wild flowers and butterflies.  The picture comes from one drawer of his small collection of Irish butterflies he put together maybe around the late 1940’s or 1950’s ??  Very few of them are even in one piece now, this drawer just looked the part, it was all mixed up and spoiled like the year had been, the summer we never really had, at least not the way we wanted or had planned it.

A Strange Year - Disc One - (Album Sample)

Lost And Found - Piano

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

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

The Compassion Mind Research Group (CMRG) Podcast

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