Havening To Cultivate More Self-Compassion
Cultivating Self-Compassion: A Pathway to True Healing
Cultivating self-compassion isn’t just a feel-good practice; it’s an essential ingredient for genuine healing and transformation in our lives.
High levels of self-compassion make life easier, boost our resilience, increase our sense of self, reduce stress and anxiety, decrease self-criticism and perfectionism, and act as a protective force to help keep us grounded when life gets tough.
Self-compassion, at its core, means treating ourselves with the same kindness and understanding that we readily offer to others.
It’s about being our own best friend rather than our harshest critic.
It's about acknowledging our struggles with empathy and recognizing that suffering is an inherent part of the human experience.
Cultivating the capacity to hold ourselves with gentleness and grace, especially in moments of pain or difficulty, is a cornerstone of true healing.
When we practice self-compassion, we create space for healing to take root, embracing our vulnerabilities with courage and tenderness rather than shying away from them in shame.
The Power of Havening® for Self-Compassion
This Havening exercise is a powerful way to soothe your heart, mind, and body while increasing your self-compassion in real and tangible ways. Havening, a psychosensory healing technique, offers a transformative approach to fostering a compassionate relationship with ourselves.
By gently using soothing touch, Havening helps downregulate the amygdala, reducing stress and emotional turbulence in the body while opening pathways to greater self-acceptance and inner peace.
This exercise also uses iffirmations—a more grounded and authentic take on affirmations—to help us open to more self-compassion in an easy and supportive way.
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Episode timing:
00:00 - Self-Compassion: A Pathway to True Healing
02:55 - Havening Exercise to Cultivate More Self-Compassion: Self-Havening to regulate and drop in
10:01 - Havening Exercise to Cultivate More Self-Compassion: Cultivating compassion for your struggles
14:54 - Havening Exercise to Cultivate More Self-Compassion: Iffirmations to Cultivate Self-Compassion
25:07 - Conclusion
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
Iffirmations to Cultivate More Self-Compassion
Iffirmations to normalize/humanize your struggle:
What if it’s okay to feel this way right now?
What if lots of people struggle like this sometimes?
What if there’s nothing wrong with me for feeling this way?
What if my reaction here actually makes sense in a way?
What if I can soften my heart to myself and this moment exactly as it is?
What would it be like to acknowledge what I’m really feeling right now and love myself anyway?
What if I can stop fighting with what is?
What would it be like to just accept my feelings right now?
What if I can love and accept myself even though I’m struggling?
Iffirmations to soften towards yourself:
What if I can soften my heart towards myself today?
What if I can start to accept myself where I am and as I am?
What would it be like if I learned to honor myself, imperfections and all?
Who would I become if I could release my self-judgment and foster self-understanding instead?
What I can become a steady source of love and compassion in my life?
What if I can have my back even when things are hard?
What if I can be patient with myself?
What if self-compassion is my best route forward?
What if I truly and deeply deserve compassion?
What if I truly and deeply deserve compassion, because …
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