Ashish KothariMake flourishing your competitive edge

shifting from self-judgment into compassionate presence.

30 May 2026 · 1 min

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A speaker describes a practice for escaping self-judgment by invoking a field of compassionate presence. A simple touch, a mental cue, or three specific components can trigger the shift. Over time it becomes automatic, helping them dissolve self-doubt even during public talks.

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So what I do is I, rituals, I think about it as shifting into compassionate presence. So it's even, it's kind of like remembering, right, when I'm stuck in that sense of separate self and I'm judging it as negative, I just ask myself to shift. So I shift from the sense of being a separate self and this negativity into this field of compassionate presence. And I might use touch, I might use the three components, or I might just ask myself to shift. It's almost become automated now. And I do that several times. And when I'm giving a talk, in the middle of the talk, I'll find that it's like I get congealed into this sense of separate self and it's like I'm doing it and it's really hard. And then when I just shift into the field of compassionate presence, it's like, ah, it's not so hard. So that's really been effective for me. Yeah, I love it.