NLP Technique | Self Compassion

NLP Technique | Self Compassion

In this short video, Michael talks through a technique to improve self-compassion. This technique is very helpful for people feeling anxiety and stress.

Be aware that abreaction may occur. So only use this technique if you are ok with that.

NLP Technique To Increase Self Compassion

  1. Find a place where you are comfortable and won’t be disturbed.
  2. Think of 5 characters that you regard unconditionally. These could be family members, friends, pets, childhood toys. As long as they are someone whose opinion you respect.
  3. Call up an anxiety and step into that worry. Immerse yourself in it. Describe it using all your senses and then come up with a totally honest description of how you feel: “I really feel worried about . . . it makes me feel shaky and sick.”
  4. Relax gently and imagine all the thousands and thousands of people in the world who also feel this way.
  5. Gently wish them well, send them gentle good wishes, and imagine them wishing you well in return.
  6. Surround yourself with your characters.  Imagine them saying to you “Be kind to yourself, care for yourself, nurture yourself, be kind, nurture, care for . . .” Repeat these words to yourself, and accept those nurturing and compassionate thoughts.
  7. When you have finished, check in with how you feel. Has anything changed?  Accept however you are, don’t question it.  Notice something, however small, that you can do to help yourself in the future.
  8. Come back into your day and take that learning with you.

As humans, we can be very self critical. This self compassion technique restores some of the balance and is good for our mental health.

The next section is about senses and sub-modalities. A key component of of NLP?

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Key NLP Techniques Section Index

1: NLP Techniques
2: Affirmations
3: Amplify feelings
4: Bad memories (Dissolving)
5: Bad memories (Exploding)
6: Belief change
7: NLP Coaching
8: Perceptual positions
9: Fast phobia cure
10: Hypnosis and meditation and separately Free Hypnosis MP3s
11: Luck
12: Mental Rehearsal 
13: Metaprogrammes, Profiles and Preferences
14: Modelling
15: Progressive dissociation
16: Rapport
17: Self Compassion
18: Submodalities
19. Six step re-framing
20: Storytelling
21: States and anchors
22: Strategies
23. Swish
24: Timeline therapy
25: Visual Squash
26: Values
27: Summary

NLP Technique Compassion
NLP Technique Compassion