What Self-Compassion Feels Like in Your Body [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

Alicia Doktor 3/5/184:00 AM

I am in an auditorium with 200 other people, staring into a stranger’s eyes, and I am crying.

As part of our Science of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion workshop, clinical psychologist Shauna Shapiro had asked participants to turn to the person next to them and imagine all her pain—her struggles and losses, her sorrows and setbacks.

I’d done mindfulness and compassion practices before, of course, but this was different. This was visceral.

[For more on this story by KIRA M. NEWMAN, go to https://greatergood.berkeley.e...ls_like_in_your_body]

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