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Christopher Germer PhD - Self Compassion & Mindfulness Meditation for Psychological Resilience

23 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker lists multiple factors that influence emotional and psychological resilience (self-confidence, communication skills, social support, problem-solving) and emphasizes that emotion regulation is a key determinant. The speaker argues self-compassion is especially important because it underlies many resilience-related skills and aids emotion regulation.

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And there are lots of factors that determine how resilient a person may be, such as self confidence, communication skills, social support, the ability to think things through. But one of the really key factors in emotional and psychological resilience is emotion regulation. Self compassion is especially important for emotion regulation because it seems to underlie a lot of those other factors. It's pretty easy to see how self compassion would work for emotion regulation if you just think about the impact of compassion on our lives when.