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#111 – Dr James Kirby on Compassion Focused Therapy

Better Thinking

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The Third Circle Is the Drive Circle

The parasympathetic and sympathetic systems play out within your body through the vagus nerve. The more time you spend in one of these circles, the bigger they get so often we'll ask clients okay here are your three circles could you draw for us on the border on the sheet paper? We try to develop the green circle as a system that can help regulate threat and drive when they come on it's not in the distance. A competitive motivation is still absolutely critical but there's just a greater balance between them.

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