A pilot exploration of heart rate variability and salivary cortisol responses to compassion-focused imagery.

By Helen Rockliff, Paul Gilbert, Kirsten McEwan, Stafford Lightman, D. Glover. 2008

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The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, background): “Rockliff et al. (2008) found that imagining receiving compassion from an ideally compassionate image tended to decrease cortisol and increase heart-rate variability (associated with the ability to self-soothe when stressed), but results were qualified by individual difference variables and the…”
Psychological and Physiological Effects of Compassionate Mind Training: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Study (2017, background): “9 ability to self-soothe in response to self-generated affiliative signals (Rockliff et al., 2008).”
Having a word with yourself: Neural correlates of self-criticism and self-reassurance (2010, background): “Using a measure of heart rate variability, Rockliff et al. (2008) found that those low in selfcriticism responded to compassionate imagery as if it was soothing and calming, whereas those high in self-criticism responded with threat type responses.”
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “This supports the growing awareness that positive ways of relating to oneself in contrast to threat or critical focused ways have very different impacts on well-being and mental health [47, 119], physiology [105] and neuro-physiology [80].”
Fears of compassion: development of three self-report measures. (2011, background): “This finding fits with other studies (e.g., Longe et al., 2010; Rockliff et al., 2008) and underlines the fact that self-criticism is not just about negative attitudes to oneself but it also contains within it a fear-based orientation to affiliation (Gilbert, 2010a).”