Changing Your Brain With Compassionate Imagery

Shrink For The Shy Guy

Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

By now you probably realize that being critical of yourself does NOT help you feel more confident. But how do we stop?

Join Dr. Aziz as he discusses the fascinating field of Compassionate Imagery with his guest expert, Dr. Lynne Henderson.

You'll discover exactly what this technique is and how to use it to shift long-standing patterns of being hard on yourself, so you can feel more accepting and compassionate towards yourself no matter what.

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0:00.0	Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon, welcome to shrink for the shy guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination.
0:13.3	With your host, Dr. Rezzezee.
0:17.1	Hey, welcome to today's episode of this show.
0:20.7	Today we're going to be getting into the fascinating field of compassionate imagery.
0:26.5	This is something that's being pioneered by a fellow named Paul Gilbert across the pond in England,
0:31.3	and he is doing a lot of research and work with people on how do we really truly and deeply transform our relationship
0:39.1	to ourselves to one of more compassion. And you've probably heard me talk about this a lot in the
0:45.5	podcast. If you've read my book, The Solution of Social Anxiety, there's a whole section on self-compassion.
0:51.0	It's also a theme in many of my programs in the Confidence Code, which people build self-esteem, and confidence unleashed, which helps people activate a sense of courage.
0:59.4	All that stuff relates back to self-compassion.
1:02.7	It's a theme that runs through everything that I teach, because without that, you've got nothing.
1:07.5	Even if you're succeeding on the outside, even if you're, you know, excelling and
1:11.0	achieving, even if you're making money or getting the job or getting the girl or having
1:14.4	the relationship, it might all look great on the outside. But I'm sure you felt this, where you
1:20.1	could be having a success on the outside, but in the inside, you're critical of yourself,
1:26.0	you're discounting it, you're saying, yeah, but that's not good
1:29.4	enough. Or, oh, those people are just saying that to be nice, or whatever you do to twist it so that you can
1:36.3	still keep beating up on yourself, attacking yourself, criticizing yourself, hating yourself.
1:41.4	And I'm speaking from personal experience here. I mean, this is something that I continually, I mean, it's night and day. I used to spend 95% of my time in self-criticism,
1:50.6	and now it's probably about 5% of my time. I mean, it's a huge transformation. Life is
1:55.4	immensely better as a result. And that's what I want for you. And that's what this episode
2:00.3	is going to help you learn how to do.
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