Compassion re-imagined12/4/2024 Have we forgotten the art of compassion?
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Beyond Your Confines The Workbook is available now. Chris Warren-Dickins
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The wonder of you12/4/2024 The autonomic nervous system influences the heart, and this shows on your face. This has an impact on your social engagement. If others feel safe and calm, this often leads to you feeling safe and calm.
This is referred to as co-regulation, and this can help you to feel more compassionate to yourself and others. Isn’t it great to learn about the wonder of you? Beyond Your Confines The Workbook is available now. Chris Warren-Dickins There is no way to escape your nervous system. It controls your body temperature, the pace of your breathing, how you digest your food, your bowel movements, and a multitude of other functions. As a result, a dysregulated nervous system is the most confining prison you can be trapped by...
...But if you can understand your nervous system and the bodily cues of safety and danger, you can learn how to regulate your responses and harness the most effective key to free your mind. Beyond Your Confines, The Workbook is available now. Chris Warren-Dickins Why are there extremists?12/3/2024 Our intolerance of uncertainty can leave us clutching at any form of certainty. Research shows that the certainty offered by fundamentalist religions, extreme political groups, radical interest groups, and conspiracy theories promises a tempting relief to our anxiety.
Part of us knows what is being promised is not the whole truth because it is so polished and over-simplified, but it is preferable to claim to know rather than admit that, for a great deal of life, we cannot know. Beyond Your Confines Chris Warren-Dickins The roots of extremism12/3/2024 Extremism also offers a sense of identity, a clear template so we do not have to struggle with what can sometimes be an uncomfortable process of self-discovery.
As psychology professor Arie W. Kruglanski points out, one of the appealing factors is the “ideological narrative—the story a terrorist group tells to justify its actions,” justifying the actions according to “group values.” Beyond Your Confines Chris Warren-Dickins Strong convictions, but at what cost?12/2/2024 We need to believe in something, and we need to feel like we belong. Sometimes we will compromise what we believe to be right in favor of our attachment to a person or group.
As Gabor Maté once wrote, “strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person’s unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.” Beyond Your Confines Chris Warren-Dickins Chris
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