Excellent Guide for Healing Anxiety and Developing CompassionThis is not a quick-fix self-help book you can read in an afternoon. we still have the fight/flight system which kicks in in modern in situations where flight or fight is not appropriate. It reiterated some concepts I am already familiar with but found that it was good to go through it again. I feel bad saying this but if you want to learn about CFT I'd recommend The Compassionate Mind Workbook by Chris Irons and Elaine Beaumont. Ie.

1 Review. I found it incredibly repetitive and as a mindfulness practicer, already it was repeating a lot of ideas I had heard before. we still have the fight/flight system which kicks in in modern in situations where flight or fight is not appropriate. Be the first to ask a question about The Compassionate Mind Developing our sense of compassion can affect many areas of our lives, in particular our relationships with other people. 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. The only downside to it is it's written from a academic point of view so does take a bit of reading and processing.“This ability to have empathy for difference, to be open to diversity, to work hard at thinking about how other people may differ from you is a key step on the road to compassion – and it’s not always easy.”“The experience of being born into a loving household or a stressed and abusive one would actually affect how my brain matured and the types of connections that were made between my neurons. I was very interested in the content of this book and wanted to learn more about developing a compassionate mind. I gave it a second star just because it did have nuggets of interesting science, but to me they weren’t worth the effort to keep reading. I recommend it highly. Developing our sense of compassion can affect many areas of our lives, in particular our relationships with other people. Paul Gilbert has a humorous and lively writing style which I love. He was treating a cohort of patients for whom available therapies, ... PODCAST: Review of the Compassionate Mind Foundation's 2018 Conference. It's similar material but condensed and has many useful exercises in. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.

Ie. The exercises are certainly useful but would agree with some other comments, the key points could have been more concisely presented. It was very repetitive and I found it really hard to not out the specific points and theories that were trying to be addressed.
There are a few exercises that could be used by therapists working with clients, to support clients in developing and growing a compassionate part to themselves. ), neglecting the fact that to be compassionate takes strength, courage, tolerance and the ability to manage distress.

Life frequently cranks up our inner critic to the maximum, making our shame, guilt or anxiety go into overdrive. why are brains/minds/emotions are so bloody complicated - as we were not designed to function in this era, this modern world, but rather we were adapted from previous models, evolution just added things on, rather than starting from scratch! That said, the pith is very good. Based on evolutionary research and scientific studies of how the brain processes emotional information, this compassionate approach offers an appealing alternative to the traditional western view of compassion, which sometimes sees it as a sign of weakness and can encourage self-criticism and a hard-nosed drive to achieve.I got about a third of the way through this book and gave up because I'd yet to see anything interesting I didn't already know. 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. Some of it may not be new to you if you’ve read a bit about self-compassion research or the way our poorly evolved brains cause us trouble. I would recommend it as an audio book because the speaker has a rich soothing voice. I found the writing style patronising and cloying. All good useful stuff and I am sure I will return to this book many times, though perhaps more asI've given this three stars because I found the writing very loose: the book could easily lose a third of its length without sacrificing content, and more without sacrificing the pith. Paul Gilbert doesn't trivialize the challenges of compassion or shy away from discussing true injustices in the world. In these cases the ability to soothe oneself beHaving seen the effects of Compassionate Focus Therapy first-hand, I had to read the book that started it all.