The Compassionate Mind (Compassion Focused Therapy)

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Gilbert is the founder of compassion focused therapy (CFT), compassionate mind training (CMT) and the author of books such as The Compassionate Mind: A New Approach to Life's Challenges [2] and Overcoming Depression. The breadth of sources used throughout the book reveals Gilbert's scholarship and ranges from Freud, Jung and Bowlby to Kelly, Beck and Ellis, to name but a few. Compassion and particularly compassion towards oneself can have a significant impact on our wellbeing and mental health. While you might be charmed to run into the words “knackered” and “namby-pamby,” some readers may be a little miffed to read such un-American things as, “the idea that ‘you can do anything’ is daft. The course has resonated with me so much, personally and professionally, and it felt an honour to be taught by Paul.

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In 1975 Gilbert gained an MA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex followed by a Ph. 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.Liaising with those with specific interests in the scientific study of compassion and its underlying processes, and facilitate communication and interchange between them. Eradicating bad feelings can never be the end goal as they are part of our basic make-up and serve a purpose, but we can be kinder to ourselves about feeling them. In addition, it’s increasingly thought that cooperative groups will out-compete competitive/individualistic ones in the long term.

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Recent evidence suggests that egalitarian attitudes produce more healthy responses when people are confronted with stressful social encounters than biased, competitive and non-egalitarian attitudes. Whilst my main experience was of this method being delivered in a psychotherapeutic group setting, I do believe that even just reading this book can be beneficial.

In addition Professor Gilbert is currently editor for the "Compassionate Approaches to Life Difficulties" book series. However, neither of these temper the tone or message it carries (that is, if you (the reader) are compassionate enough to see him as a human, not a flawless, perfect being! I have personally found that the work of Bruce Ecker and Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems) as well as the somatic focussed therapies have the most power to access the "Safe Affiliative system" and thus our capacity for self compassion.

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He served on the government's National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for depression. The annoyance or disappointment over the thing itself may dissipate quickly, but my ruminations about myself as inferior, incompetent, lacking will-power or whatever can stay with me for hours, days, weeks or even years, constantly undermining my happiness. Humans spend little time in this zone because we are wired to think about threat all the time - much more so than anything pleasurable. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account.to be compassionate is to stand back from these emotion and mood states of, say, depression, anxiety or the urge for vengeance and neither pathologize nor indulge them. This can sometimes lead to problems in how we respond to life’s challenges and scientific evidence has demonstrated that compassion towards oneself and others can lead to an increased sense of happiness and wellbeing – particularly valuable when we are feeling stressed.

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It talks about our under developed self soothing system in the west, which is exacerbated if you were not given a lot of this in your early years.We can stimulate patterns in our brains that are self-nourishing, supportive, encouraging and soothing so that in whatever we do to help ourselves, we create in our heads and experience (brain patterns) of warmth, kindness and support as our primary starting position. I just really found that I hated this book, so much so that the idea to have a more compassionate mind after reading this was not achieved at all. When the Dalai Lama first came to the West, he was stunned by the levels of self-dissatisfaction, self-disappointment, self-criticism and self-dislike he encountered.