Wellness through Self Compassion

Self-compassion involves treating yourself the way you would treat a friend who is having a hard time. According to prominent self-compassion researchers, psychologists Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, self-compassion involves three core elements that we bring to bear when we are in pain: kindness towards ourselves, recognizing our common humanity that everyone makes mistakes and feels pain, and mindfulness, that is observing the present moment, our current thoughts, feelings and experiences without judging ourselves for having them.  The more compassion we express towards ourselves, the easier it becomes to be compassionate towards others.

Stress triggers a fight-flight-freeze response. So you can feel elevated heart rate, butterflies in our stomach and muscle tightness. Have you noticed how during  moments of stress- an internal critical voice can turn on fairly quickly too, like an internal fight reaction ? And since our internal voice is always around, if this voice is critical it maintains our stress reaction and possibly even makes it worse. So developing a self-compassionate, friendly voice can actually interrupt the stressful critical voice. A self compassionate practice can help activate and maintain a calming response that softens the impact of stress.

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