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Compassion for others takes courage. Receiving compassion from others takes courage. Offering compassion to ourselves takes courage. All three flows of compassion take courage, and in this video Dr Stan Steindl offers some thoughts and musings about courage and how to find it as we cultivate the compassionate mind. If you would like to watch the original video, you can find it here: https://youtu....

Podcast 18: 2020 Welcome Back & Research by The Compassion Initiative: Dr Stan Steindl and Dr James Kirby

In this podcast, Dr Stan Steindl discusses the role of mind awareness in compassionate wisdom. Specifically, the first step in compassionate wisdom is to be able to become aware of the mind, understand it, and understand how it works. When difficult emotions arise, then we move towards and experience the emotions. Not easy, and takes a lot of courage! But important! The original video can be found...

Our minds can so easily get caught up in difficult loops. It can be very difficult stepping out of those loops and into the compassionate mind. Not least, we have reservations that hold us back from compassion towards self and others. So what can take us from reservation to activation of the compassionate mind? In this podcast, Dr Stan Steindl introduces the concept of Wisdom Talk: exploring and e...

In this podcast, Dr Stan Steindl dives a little deeper into discovering compassionate wisdom and the role it plays in cultivating the compassionate mind. Given the genes that were designed for us, the tricky brains and bodies we were born with, and the experiences that shaped us, so much of our suffering is not our fault. Ultimately, compassionate wisdom is about taking responsibility for the diff...

In this podcast, Dr Stan Steindl presents a guided practice bringing together the body-based practices discussed in Always Bring It Back To The Body - Part 1: a compassionate posture, friendly facial expression, warm and friendly voice tones, and Soothing Rhythm Breathing.

In this podcast, Dr Stan Steindl discusses the foundational body-based practices of compassion: a compassionate posture, friendly facial expression, warm and friendly voice tones, and Soothing Rhythm Breathing. A second podcast, Always Bring It Back To The Body - Part 2, provides a demonstration and guided practice, and can be found here at The Compassion Initiative Podcast.

In this video, Dr Stan Steindl discusses three of the important qualities that make up the compassionate mind, the flour, eggs and sugar of the compassion cake, if you will: wisdom, strength and commitment. Perhaps you can explore these qualities for yourself, and add in other qualities to create the recipe for your own signature compassion cake! See the original video here: https://youtu.be/JQ4Ps...

In this video, Dr Stan Steindl discusses the fundamental role of compassion in human survival, including being open to receiving help, support comfort and compassion from others. However, people can feel a number of fears, blocks and resistances that can get in the way of receiving compassion. This video offers five steps to help with opening up to receiving compassion from others. The video can b...

Here, Dr Stan Steindl discusses self-compassion, first by considering the natural emergence of compassion for another living creature that is suffering, and then applying elements of that same compassion to ourselves when we too may suffer. The original video Let's Talk About Self-Compassion! can be found here: https://youtu.be/xrnaDPICJZw

If you would like to be more compassionate towards others, but approaching their suffering feels overwhelming, you're not alone! This little video talks about this challenge, and offers ten tips about getting started. Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hze-7_-SY-o

In this brief video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jKxI1zp1Gg&t=6s), Stan explore the fears, blocks and resistances to compassion and self-compassion, as well as some of the benefits of compassion, and how to start incorporating more compassion into your life by taking small steps. This video is designed for people who have just been introduced to compassion focused therapy and who may be feeli...

Stan Speaks with Dr Marcela Matos from University of Coimbra in Portugal about her shame memories and compassion research. Stan and Marcela were at the Compassionate Mind Summit and Retreat presenting a workshop "Working with Shame Memories."

Podcast 16: James reflects with Stan on our time with Prof Paul Gilbert by The Compassion Initiative: Dr Stan Steindl and Dr James Kirby

Loving kindness for self meditation with music. Spoken word by Stan Steindl, classical guitar accompaniment by Anthony Garcia. Performed as part of Convergence: The Science, Art and Spirit of Compassion. Approximately 18 minutes.

Loving kindness for others meditation with music. Spoken word by Stan Steindl, classical guitar accompaniment by Anthony Garcia. Performed as part of Convergence: The Science, Art and Spirit of Compassion. Approximately 18 minutes.

Affectionate breathing with music. Spoken word by Stan Steindl, classical guitar accompaniment by Anthony Garcia. Performed as part of Convergence: The Science, Art and Spirit of Compassion. Approximately 18 minutes.

In this episode of the Compassion Initiative Podcast, James and Stan speak with Professor Paul Gilbert about compassion as a motivation, the nature of suffering, and compassion as a powerful response. As Professor Gilbert says, compassion involves finding "the wise way of engaging with the inevitable suffering of life."

In this podcast, James and Stan discuss (among other things) their recent experience with running compassionate mind training groups, especially working with participants around the role of the compassionate self in helping them to differentiate, integrate and transform multiple selves and old patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Here, James speaks with Dr Nico Petrocchi, reviewing Day 1 of the 2018 Compassionate Mind Foundation international conference.

In today's class we discussed fears of compassion and whether you can have compassion without mindfulness.

In our latest episode Stan and James have a casual discussion about how compassion might relate to ethics, sympathy and empathy. This was recorded live in front of the Science of Compassion course at UQ.

Today we discussed whether compassion interventions are helpful, as well as whether it is possible to be high in self-compassion and low in compassion for others. We recorded this podcast in front of our Science of Compassion Class at the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland.

This was a podcast done during our 4th year course "Science of Compassion." We discuss how to measure compassion and compassion in children.

Track 7 CMT Compassion For Self by The Compassion Initiative: Dr Stan Steindl and Dr James Kirby