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This video features a short guided meditation from the Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert.
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Compassion is the tenderness of the heart when it encounters suffering. For the circle of compassion to flow it requires the care of those suffering around you but that circle must include one other being-yourself.
We are conditioned to avoid suffering – our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect from our innate capacity for compassion.
Feb 10, 2020 Compassion is totally natural on some level, and it’s somewhat foreign when it comes to meeting our own pain with tenderness, care, friendliness, our survival instinct when we feel pain, is to hate it.
Cultivate empathy for yourself, decrease stress and increase your happiness quotient with this week’s Monday Meditation featuring Joan Borysenko.