Biography
Biography: Prabha Krishnakumar
Abstract
Most people experience a range of positive and negative emotions in a day or in a span of several days. When someone starts experiencing negative feelings such as sadness, tearfulness, emptiness or hopelessness more often and if these feelings become extreme and unpleasant, they are important signals that something is wrong. But they’re only symptoms of an unconscious cause. For instance, feeling depressed is often an indication that the person may have internal image of a dreary future, or maybe there’s a low, slow, internal voice saying, “It’s miserable.” What helps a person to come out of this feeling is being cared for and supported.
It comes easily for us to show compassion to a person who is going through above emotions. However when it comes to ourselves, we often start self-blame and criticizing our thoughts and actions. Often people look for this support in the external world. The most vital support can be provided by believing in ourselves and being empathetic to ourselves. This would be possible through accepting that you are not the only one with problems and giving self-affirmations. All these are means of being self-compassionate.
Through this workshop we will have an overview about self-compassion and also look in to one of the NLP techniques that would train us to be self-compassionate. The one hour workshop aims to help you at both personal and professional level. By practicing self-compassion, we will learn to consider our problems in the light of human experience and subsequently help us in accepting our weaknesses and imperfections. This gives us more open mindedness and we can be in a better position to propagate awareness of self-compassion to our clients.