Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

🌿 Unlock the power of #selfcompassion with #ChristopherGermer #mentalhealing #backdraft

17 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Fleet Maull upload) featuring Christopher Germer explaining the phenomenon called "backdraft": when people open their hearts in self-compassion, previously unprocessed pain often emerges. Germer frames this as a normal, healing mechanism — therapists and clients should expect and work with it, and experiencing difficult emotions in compassion practices often indicates the practice is proceeding correctly rather than a mistake.

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Compassion and self compassion is really powerful medicine. And, and so we really want to expect and normalize the phenomenon of backdraft. In other words, that we will when, basically when the, the door of our hearts open and the love goes in, the pain comes out. And this is a healing mechanism of self compassion. When we can meet that pain with kindness in a way that it may not have been met earlier in our lives, it should be expected, it should be worked with. And clients need to know that when they're, when difficult emotions come out in the context of compassion, it doesn't mean they're doing it wrong. In fact, they're probably doing it right.