Experiential Introduction �to Compassion Key.
The traditional mental health model assumes clients lack skills (i.e. coping skills) & that they need help them develop those skills.
Compassion Key assumes each of us is unbroken at our essence, and that life events and wounding distort our experience.
The mechanism for unearthing and removing this distortion is self-directed compassion.
Compassion Key does not judge negative thoughts or emotions.
Instead, we recognize negative thoughts and emotions as messages—a map to what needs to be uncovered and healed.
As you move through those “negative” emotional states, you are releasing them. You are not reinforcing them, and you are not creating your reality with them.
Compassion Key practitioners do agree that while the law of attraction is valid, it is only half the story.
In order to change or eliminate that underlying wound, we need to acknowledge it—and since wounding is inherently “negative”, Compassion Key does not avoid, minimize, or steer around negativity. In order to heal the experiences that hold us back, we need to face them.
It’s important that you speak the phrases out loud and notice what the phrases might bring up in your body, your thoughts, or your memory.
Speak to yourself with compassion
We will be speaking in the 2nd person. Recent neuroscience research indicates that the pronouns we use during self-talk—specifically “you” versus “I”—can significantly influence our emotional regulation and performance.
Some phrases may hit a bullseye with you, some may have no effect, and some may bring up a sense of resistance.
Even if the phrase is one that you don’t approve of, or you fundamentally disagree with, I encourage you to say it out loud.
Be present with yourself. This experience may bring up body reactions, thoughts, memories, and emotions
Let go of the idea that you are supposed to have done everything perfectly up until this moment that you are in right now
The truth is that we don’t get what we deserve in life. We get what we think we deserve.
May this day have brought you closer to
that reality.