self-compassion
training has a positive impact on biomarkers
in the body associated with aging and disease. In one study in women (Arch
et al., 2014), self-compassion
training not only changed anxiety and cardiac responses
in a stress situation, it also decreased the body’s stress activation as measured by alpha-amylase,
an enzyme in the saliva. Another study (Breines et al., 2014) compared a
stress-induced
inflammation marker (interleukin-6)
in the blood in forty-one
healthy
adults after exposure to a standard laboratory stressor. Those with higher levels of self-compassion
had significantly lower levels of inflammation markers, which suggest self-compassion
may protect against the many inflammation-related
diseases.
training has a positive impact on biomarkers
in the body associated with aging and disease. In one study in women (Arch
et al., 2014), self-compassion
training not only changed anxiety and cardiac responses
in a stress situation, it also decreased the body’s stress activation as measured by alpha-amylase,
an enzyme in the saliva. Another study (Breines et al., 2014) compared a
stress-induced
inflammation marker (interleukin-6)
in the blood in forty-one
healthy
adults after exposure to a standard laboratory stressor. Those with higher levels of self-compassion
had significantly lower levels of inflammation markers, which suggest self-compassion
may protect against the many inflammation-related
diseases.
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