Why Compassion? A personal journey of self-healing

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Dear reader, I’m glad your curiosity has led you here. It is my hope to share a bit of how I came to embrace compassion. This being a simplified story of how I learnt to re-purpose every knowledge at my disposal to heal myself (in conjunction with professional help, and it is important to stress that seeking professional help is critical) from a mental breakdown:

• Neuroscience gave me a solid foundation in understanding memory, habits, cognition, and emotions (at one stage, I was a board director at the Greenstein Institute of Applied Neuroscience); and
• The Virtues Project’s faiths (plural) based communication framework gave me a healthy way to talk myself into a calmer state (I am a certified facilitator); and
• Wim Hof and pranayama gave me tools to master my breath as a way to calm myself down (a daily discipline of breathing exercises I’ve maintained to this day); and
• TCM (traditional chinese medicine) and ayuverda gave me knowledge for sustained physical self-care (primarily ways to maintain a strong immune system, and facilitating my own body’s inner wisdom); and
• My legal and coaching training in the art and science of questions helped me ask myself powerful questions that act as clues (for a question not asked is a door not opened), which when combined…