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Compassion also protects us against harsh self-judgment.
George S. Pransky • The Relationship Handbook
Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.
Sam Harris • Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion
La Donna Harris and Jacqueline Wasilewski (2004) suggest:
Daniel J. Siegel • IntraConnected
The larger point I want to make here is that any approach that increases your inner drill sergeant’s impulse to shame you into behaving (and make you feel like a failure if you can’t) will do no better in internal families than it does in external ones in which parents adopt shaming tactics to control their children.
Ph.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Mindfulness
Daniel • 2 cards
Can I relax 5 percent more? Trust 5 percent more?” And if 5 percent feels like too much: “Can I do 1 percent?”
Shauna L. Shapiro • Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy
At its core, mindfulness embraces heartfulness, as it requires being kind and compassionate to yourself and your experiences.
Lidia Zylowska MD • The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions, and Achieving Your Goals
At first, Brach was driving me nuts with all of her ostentatious head-bowing, bell-ringing, and Namaste-saying. But then she redeemed herself. She nailed the method for applying mindfulness in acute situations, albeit with a somewhat dopey acronym: RAIN. R: recognize A: allow I: investigate N: non-identification