Colour Breathing for Self-Compassion – Embrace Self-Compassion

It can be surprisingly difficult to offer yourself the same understanding you’d readily give to someone else.

Perhaps you expect a great deal from yourself and notice your inner critic becoming particularly loud when you make a mistake. You might replay what you should have done differently, feel guilty when you rest or find that self-compassion feels uncomfortable when you’re used to holding yourself to high standards.

Developing a more supportive relationship with yourself doesn’t mean pretending mistakes don’t matter or ignoring the things you’d like to change. It can begin with creating some space where your response to yourself doesn’t always have to come from criticism, pressure or judgement.

Embrace Self-Compassion is a downloadable Colour Breathing audio using Soft Pink, created to support emotional soothing, self-holding and a greater sense of safety around emotional vulnerability.

What is Colour Breathing?

Colour Breathing combines focused breathing with visualisation. As you follow the guided audio, you imagine breathing in a particular colour and connecting with the qualities associated with it.

Within Viv’s approach to Colour Breathing, different colours are chosen according to the emotional and energetic qualities they represent. In this experience, you’ll work with Soft Pink, which is associated with compassion, emotional warmth and a nurturing sense of support.

As you breathe, you’re guided to visualise drawing Soft Pink inwards with your breath, allowing yourself to spend some time connecting with those qualities. The practice also creates space to release some of the tension or emotional pressure you may be carrying as you breathe out.

You don’t need any previous experience of visualisation, meditation or Colour Breathing to use the audio. Simply follow the guidance and allow yourself to experience the practice in whatever way feels natural to you.

This Colour Breathing experience may feel relevant if...

You’re much more understanding of other people’s mistakes than your own, or self-criticism tends to be one of your first responses when you feel you’ve got something wrong.

It may also feel supportive if perfectionism or high expectations mean you place yourself under considerable internal pressure, if you find it difficult to prioritise your own needs without guilt, or if self-compassion and self-acceptance are things you’d like to develop and yet don’t always find easy.

This audio isn’t intended to silence your inner critic or make difficult feelings disappear. Instead, it gives you a guided breathing and visualisation practice through which you can spend some time experiencing a different way of relating to yourself.

Sometimes self-compassion can feel unfamiliar, particularly when self-criticism has been your usual response for a long time. You don’t need to force yourself to feel differently. This practice simply gives you somewhere to begin exploring what greater internal support might feel like for you.

What you’ll receive

Format: Downloadable guided Colour Breathing audio

Colour: Soft Pink

Duration: 34 minutes

Prefer a more layered approach?

This Colour Breathing audio is a standalone resource and is also included within the Developing Greater Self-Compassion Self-Healing Bundle.

The complete bundle explores self-compassion through several complementary resources rather than asking this one practice to address every aspect of self-criticism, perfectionism and your relationship with yourself.

If Colour Breathing feels like the kind of support you’re looking for, you can use this audio on its own. If you’d prefer to explore self-compassion through a wider range of supportive approaches, the complete bundle provides that broader experience.