Name: Compassionate colour by Irish Centre for Compassion Focused Therapy
Duration: 4 min 58 s
Description: 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.

An exercise to help you notice when you are in your senses as opposed to in your mind and when you are acting to move towards what's important to you as opposed to acting to escape from difficult internal experiences. 

ACT matrix warm up

This is a version of the classic ACT mindfulness exercise, "Leaves on a Stream" originally attributable to Dr. Stephen C. Hayes.

Leaves On A Stream

Kristin Neff Body Scan

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 - Deepening The Compassionate Self (Part II)

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

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

The compassionate ideal image

Track 3 CMT Soothing Rhythm Breathing

A short guided mindfulness meditation exploring sensations, thoughts, emotions, breath. Softening tension moment by moment.

Mindfulness Meditation for UCL Pain Management Masters

The Irish Centre for Compassion Focused Therapy (ICCFT) is an independent practice offering individual therapy and consultation.

Compassionate colour

Irish Centre for Compassion Focused Therapy

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