The Compassionate Mind (Compassion Focused Therapy)

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A deciding factor in whether to give a five star review is: has this booked changed my outlook on life to a significant degree? This takes us to the heart of compassionate behaviour because it isn’t just about acting in kind, warm and friendly ways. In this ground-breaking new book he explores how our minds have developed to be highly sensitive and quick to react to perceived threats and how this fast-acting threat-response system can be a source of anxiety, depression and aggression. Compassion is frequently seen as a mushy mushy touchy feely kind of emotion (I know, scientific jargon, right?

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Given the length of the book and its 48 pages of notes, I am not sure of its utility as a stand-alone self-help guide. The Compassionate Mind Foundation supports dissemination of the flow of compassion whereby we are able to be compassionate to others, open to the compassion from others, and compassionate to ourselves. we still have the fight/flight system which kicks in in modern in situations where flight or fight is not appropriate. Whilst he tries to present an objective view of Compassion and our role in embracing it, there are obvious personality/character traits that you pick up as you read - Gilbert is obviously not a fan of 'God' or the constructs of a religious deity; he has a political stance which he leans on a number of times throughout the book. If I’d been unlucky enough to have been born into, say, an old-style orphanage where infants were left in cots all day and there was little care or interaction, then all the potential that lies inside me, which could have been sculpted by love and kindness feeding my brain, would simply have withered away.Facilitating open discussion on how to further promote a compassionate focus in many domains of human activity. I think Paul Gilbert's book titled compassion focused therapy is better structured and the relevant information is condensed. It requires that we communicate clearly and assert ourselves without setting out to put others down. g. my parents), but my actual brain, from where my thoughts, feelings and desires flow, is sculpted by my relationships.

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His work is both enlightening and, as I've already mentioned, refreshing, so makes for easy reading whatever your personal, political, professional, spiritual or religious leaning. The last 15 years have seen an expanding evidence base for a compassion focused approach to the alleviation of mental health difficulties and promoting wellbeing. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work.

The challenge is to recognize the importance of kindness and affection and place them at the center of our relationship with ourselves, with others, and the world. Social mentalities: Internal ‘social’ conflicts and the role of inner warmth and compassion in cognitive therapy. Like so frequently in the past, Paul Gilbert has come forth again with a book about the mind, its unused potential, and how to harness that potential to one's and others' benefit. The first half grounds the argument for compassion in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology; the second half offers practical ways to develop it, with a strong focus on meditation.

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It is not just my ‘values’ that would be shaped in a certain way by my relationships with others (e. It does contain worksheets for anyone interested in carrying out compassion exercises but the exercises are scattered throughout the book and it would be difficult to devise a programme as there are so many of them. If I put on too much weight because I don’t control my eating, if I make mistakes, if others reject me, if others criticize me, if I struggle to understand how my computer works when others seem to do this easily – just about anything can become a way of judging and experiencing myself negatively. But I still got a lot from how he ties the science and some stories together into what it all means for you (and, at the end of the book, for us as a society).

Books comprising myths can thus prevent us from seeing that it is our own greed for nice things that can be, for others, a source of injustice and vengeance. Tomēr tā ir mūsu izvēle un iespēja paņemt atbildību un piedzīvot labāko iespējamo sevi, nodzīvot labāko iespējamo dzīvi. This leads into self compassion, it's about forgiving ourselves for being complex animals and for not being perfect, and understanding what it means to be human. If you stop and take note of your thoughts and emotions, a lot of these fall into Threat or Drive, so the task is to build upon the soothing. I am not sure who this book is directed at but it took a bit of stamina and discipline for me to finish it.