Songs For Self Compassion

[Deleted member 28942]

Hi,

I am working on self-compassion and I remembered a lot of songs I used to listen to when I was a child and teenager that helped me to deal with the difficult feelings. Here are some of the songs that help me:

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Alanis Morissette - That I Would Be Good
Sarah McLachlan - Angel
The Corrs (or REM) - Everybody Hurts
Sting - Fragile
Celine Dion - Fly
The Beatles - Let it Be

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank You,
UniversalBeing

 

[sun seeker]

Calling All Angels - I like the version sung by the Anderson Family
I Am - Kirtana

Depends what kinds of difficult feelings you're dealing with though. If any of it has to do with recovery from child abuse, I like these:
Alyssa Lies - Jason Michael Carrol
Concrete Angel - Martina McBride
I Will Stand Fast - Fred Small

I'm mixing up performers and writers here, it's just the way you're most likely to find them on youtube if that's where you're looking.

 

[shrinkingviolet]

Here comes the Sun by the Beatles
Good Enough by Sarah Mclachlan
In My Life by John Lennon
By your side by 10th Avenue North

 

[sun seeker]

Oh and I forgot this one: Remember the Tinman - Tracy Chapman. I listened to that nonstop for a while after leaving my ex.

 

[Ocean5]

You know I've been thinking same thing lately. I had songs that helped so much to escape youth. But other songs brought me more down. I ended up putting those cds behind others as not to be tempted to listen. So wouldn't listen to them.

Some positive songs for you :)

Sarah McLachlan - Angel
Sarah McLachlan - Good enough
Gloria Estefan - Coming Out of the Dark
Gloria Estefan - Always Tomorrow
Jewel (way too many from her earlier years but)
- Hands
- Deep Water

Melissa Ethridge - Refugee
"You don't have to live like a refugee"
Sure many will relate to that quote here...

 

[garden]

Beautiful -Christina Aguilera (because those a**holes lied, I am beautiful)
No Woman No Cry -Bob Marley (always inspires compassion for the female inside me)
Return to Innocence -Enigma
You Make Me Feel -Aretha Franklin (for me this is about the healing that my daughter brings me)
Here Comes the Sun -The Beatles
In the Colors -Ben Harper (because goodness can be found despite it all)
I Can See Clearly Now -Johnny Nash (because the dark eventually passes)
Human Nature -Madonna (About owning my sexuality rather than the one shoved down my throat)
Ophelia -Natalie Merchant (this makes me feel compassion for my own fragmented self...like I'm all of the different versions of Ophelia, and it's okay.)

 

[garden]

@UniversalBeing Thanks for starting this, you've inspired me to create a compassion playlist for myself. Musical therapy :)

 

[Hope4Now]

Great thread!
I've made two playlists and am working on a third one. Here's a baker's dozen of upbeat ones:

Dougie Maclean's Ready for the Storm
Catie Curtis's Galileo and The World Don't Owe Me Nothin' and Live, Laugh Love
Dar Williams's What Do You Hear in These Sounds
Coldplay's Fix You
Sinead O'Connor's This Is To Mother You
Sara Bareilles's Brave
Emilie Sande's Read All About It Part III
Meg Hutchinson's Come Up Full
Emma's Revolution Swimming to the Other Side and Shelter and
Pink F*ing Perfect
James Taylor's Up on the Roof
John Gorka's Thorny Patch
Dave Mallet's Hungry for Love

 

[Ocean5]

Been in bad times recently - so thanks for this thread.

Another to add to must list - I'm been trying to listen to positive.
Jewel - Innocence Maintained

But songs going through my head are not so positive like
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

 

[WildMermaid]

This is mix of the ups and downs, and each has personal significance for me. Wonderful thread @UniversalBeing

Stand By Me ~ Ben E. King
I Melt With you ~ Modern English
Firework ~ Katy Perry
Peace in the Valley ~ A3 (Alabama 3 *explicit*)
I Would Walk 500 Miles ~Proclaimers
Riders on the Storm ~ the Doors
Somewhere Over the Rainbow ~ Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole
Rolling in the Deep ~ Adele
The Sounds of Silence ~ Simon & Garfunkel
Everybody Wants to Be a Cat ~ Psapp
Breathing ~ "But, I'm a Cheerleader" soundtrack
Silent All These Years ~ Tori Amos
Terrible Angels ~ Coco Rosie
Little Earthquakes ~ Tori Amos
Where the Streets Have No Name ~ Pete Shop Boys
Hello, I Love You ~ the Doors
Our House ~ Madness
Eleanor Rigby ~ Beatles
Cross Bones Style ~ Cat Power
Too Sick to Pray ~ A3
Tubthumping ~ Chumbawamba
I Won't Back Down ~ Tom Petty
Digging in the Dirt ~ Peter Gabriel
We R Who We R ~ Ke$ha
Hella Good ~ No Doubt
Let's Get Out of This Country ~ Camera Obscura
The Sunnyside of the Street ~ the Pogues
We're Going to be Friends ~ White Stripes
Criminal ~ Fiona Apple
Personal Jesus ~ Johnny Cash (cover)
Steal My Sunshine ~ Len
On the Road Again ~ Willie Nelson
You May Be Right ~ Billy Joel
Just a Girl ~ No Doubt
Nature Boy ~ Nat King Cole
Ring of Fire ~ Johnny Cash
Fade Into You ~ Mazzy Star
In a Big Country ~ Big Country
Small Town ~ John Cougar Mellencamp
And She Was ~ Talking Heads
Horse With No Name ~ America
Hurt ~ Johnny Cash (cover)
You Get What You Give ~ New Radicals
I Wanna Be Sedated ~ Ramones
Free Fallin' ~ Tom Petty
Wildflowers ~ Tom Petty
I Can't Get No Satisfaction ~ Cat Power (cover)
Into the Mystic ~ Van Morrison
Have You Ever Seen the Rain ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival
History Repeating ~ Propellerheads & Shirley Bassey
Joy to the World ~ Three Dog Night

 

[Beachlife09]

"Nobody ever told you" -Carrie Underwood
"Mirror"-BarlowGirl
"Warrior"-Demi Lovato
"Who I am" -Blanca
"Break Free"- Ariana Grande
"Close your eyes"-Megan Trainor
"You are loved (Don't give up)-J. Groban
"One step at a time"-Jordin Sparks
"You're not alone"-Owl City Ft. Britt Nicole
"Still that girl"-Britt Nicole

And one funny one- "Hakuna Matata"-Nathan Lane :joyful:

I'm not sure all of those would quite fit the "self-compassion" category, but they're ones that encourage me :)

 

[MT Johnny]

Katy Perry - Roar and Part of Me
Keith Urban - Shine