Status Updates From Experiencing Compassion-Foc...

"...there is a big difference between safeness and safety. A place of safety is where you are cut off from the rest of the world so that bad things can't happen...whereas a place of safeness is where we feel able to explore our surroundings. We are free. We can have open attention and playfulness. With a feeling of safeness comes the freedom to explore..."

- Safe-Place Imagery (James Kirby)

"It is the act of TRYING the practice that is important, and the feelings of safeness and calmness - well they may follow later."

Safe-Place Imagery (James Kirby)

"The way we use imagery in CFT isn't as much about creating picture-perfect mental photographs as it is about creating mental experiences that facilitate felt shifts in understanding, emotion and motivation."

- done Module 8

- done Module 7

"We also learn from our observations of others' behaviour - which behaviours they model for us (from which we learn what sorts of behaviour are acceptable) and which behaviours they do not (for example, the emotions they never express - which can teach us that certain emotional experiences are unacceptable."

"This process also provides us with a demonstration of compassionate coping: Instead of avoiding our struggles, we look deeply into them with the intention of understanding the causes and conditions that create and maintain them, asking, "What would be helpful as I work with this obstacle?""

"The distractions aren't a problem or mistake; rather, they provide an opportunity to train our attention by helping us learn to notice movement in the mind."

"If we're going to bring compassion to difficult experiences, we first need to be aware of them."

- done Module 5

- done Module 4 (5/3/2022)

- done Module 3
- done Soothing Rhythm Breathing Practice (Paul Gilbert)

“If I were at my best—my kindest, wisest, most courageous, and most compassionate—how would I want to handle this situation?”

- done Module 2

- done Module 1

An extremely slow and conceptual start.... Why are books for therapists written like this 😐