The Simplicity Parenting Podcast with Kim John Payne #88: Special “Compassionate Response Practice” – Pt. 3 The Practice
Mar 27, 2020
A guided compassionate response practice that invites creating a memory image and visualizing a flowing, capable parenting self. The guide contrasts that calm self with moments of constriction and depletion, then brings them together with compassion. Listeners are led through sensing vitality, expanding self-kindness, and practical ways to apply the practice during triggered parenting moments.
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Use A Positive Visualization To Recenter
- Visualize a time when you were at your best with children and feel that relaxation in your body.
- Move inward to sense vitality and emotional equilibrium so you can access calm competence when needed.
Recognize The Fevered Self Too
- Notice the contrasting ‘fevered’ self with tightness, depleted energy, and emotional constriction.
- Recognize both states as valid parts of you to reduce shame and increase self-awareness.
Breathe Out Confidence To Expand It
- Hold your confident self close and breathe it outward to expand its influence around you.
- Celebrate and let that centered confidence fill the space so you can act from it.