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<speak> <emphasis level="strong">Fears, blocks and resistances (FBRs) to compassion</emphasis><break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> Ample research has been done to suggest that we all have Fears Blocks and Resistance (FBRs) to giving and receiving compassion. The concept of FBRs is captured well in the research on the Fears of compassion scale (Gilbert, McEwan, Matos, Rivis, 2010):<break strength="x-strong"/> Fears of Compassion scale<break strength="x-strong"/> Fear of expressing compassion for others<break strength="x-strong"/> Fear of receiving compassion from others<break strength="x-strong"/> Fear of expressing compassion for yourself<break strength="x-strong"/> The more FBRs we have in either direction, the more suffering we need to deal with.<break strength="x-strong"/> See the table below for an example of the significant statistical relationship between the different directions of FBRs, and stress, depression and anxiety:<break strength="x-strong"/> <emphasis level="strong">Fears of compassionStressAnxietyDepressionCompassion for Others</emphasis>.32**.39**.35pi<emphasis level="strong">Compassion from Others</emphasis>.56**.57**.71pi<emphasis level="strong">Compassion</emphasis><break strength="x-strong"/> <emphasis level="strong">for Self</emphasis>.54**.58**.74pi<break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> </speak>