Cft session 2

Cft session 2

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  CFT Compassion Focused Therapy Session 2
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  Housekeeping  Collect measures
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  Today’s Agenda  Learnabout old brain and new brain  Learn about and practice soothing rhythm breathing to cope  Learn about our ways of coping, what needs are met and unintended consequences
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  How Evolution hasshaped our brains:  Goal of CFT: to shift the relationship with our internal experience from judgement and shame to understanding and compassion  Many aspects of our experiences are not our fault  We can still take responsibility without blaming ourselves
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   “We arenot responsible for falling down but we are responsible for getting back up….”  Compassion begins with understanding the mind
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  Old brains … Old brain = emotional brain  Kept our ancestors alive  Threat and reward, fight, flight Automatic, fast, strong….  Powerful, but not polished…..  Can’t tell the differences between mental images and reality  Can activate our bodies (anger, sex, food)
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  New Brain….  Thinking,reasoning, self-control  Problem solving, mental- imagery, self- awareness…  Less powerful but more polished  Deep thinking, thinking about the future  More evolved, makes us human
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  Old brain, NewBrain, Tricky Brain
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  One of thescariest thoughts…
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  There’s a reasonwe call it a vicious cycle…  Self criticism keeps the threat response activated, as if there were a real intruder  The brain can’t tell external (intruder) threats from internal (self-criticism) threats  CFT helps us to move away from threatening self criticism to feelings of understanding, compassion, soothing and safeness….
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  How Shame affectsthe body and mind:  Making contact with the experience of shame pg 31 green book
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  Soothing Rhythm Breathing Purposely slowing down the breath to slow the body’s response to threat  The effect is built over time…  Let’s try it together now
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  Coping Strategies  Whatwe intend and what actually happens are two different things (trying to get someone to listen during a “fight”)  Self-compassion is about understanding that every behavior is an attempt to meet a need or solve a problem  See worksheet 3 pg 59 of the Power of Compassion
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  Wrap up andHomework:  Practice SRB twice per day for 30 seconds  What will we link it to so we will practice?  TV commercial  Red Light  After or during the bath/shower  Set timer on phone  Wake and Bed