Introduction To The Internal Family Systems (IFS)

An introduction to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) meditations narrated by Dr. Richard Schwartz. This is the first in a series of 8 meditations guiding listeners through topics including Meditation, The Path, Heart, One Part, Fire Drill, Embodiment, and Courage.

Transcript

I'm Richard Schwartz and I want to welcome you to this collection of meditations and exercises that are based on the internal family systems model.

Feel free to use them in whatever way feels right to you.

It may be that you'll want to do them in sequence or you might want to just try the same one several times.

Some people will just use one over and over and then move to another one.

Some of them are designed to help you get to know a part or change your relationship with it a little bit.

Others are more designed to help your parts relax and let you embody self energy and then some are designed to actually bring up parts,

Provoke them and help them be available to you to then work with.

All of them though are designed to help promote what we call self leadership.

That is to help your parts trust that it's safe to let you lead and stay in your body as you go through life and we hope you enjoy them.

Reviews

Thank you

Thought provoking! Namaste

Very interesting. This is new for me. Thanks

I am so interested.. I only just heard about IFS and then was guided here .. Can you recommend where to start and if there was an original order/ or beat order for a beginner please ? I would like to systemically listen and then go back and use daily the ones that resonate with me 💖🙏🏼

Thank you Richard for your work, your books and for making these mediations freely available. They’re life changing.

Intriguing. Heard of this work here on IT and must learn more!

Very excited to practice your guided meditations. I love IFS as a therapeutic technique.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and skill. My internal family is grateful 😇

So grateful for these meditations as I don’t have an IFS therapist yet. Thanks

Thank you for this introduction 🙏

Great intro.

Looking forward to trying these out. I am intrigued by the possibility that they might be helpful to me as I continue work on development of my dissertation research plan in an area very much related to family systems and social identity.

I see you and the light within you. Be well. 🤲🏻❤🤲🏻

I know about this topic and was just curious about how it would be introduced- this is just a quick hello, I’m assuming that it will become clear in other meditations on this series. Thank you for sharing! 😊🙏🏻

Thank you for bringing this to insightTimer.

Thank you so much for sharing on Insight Timer. I have just begun my IFS journey and it's been transformational. May all beings know peace.

Interesting approach. Open to what follows.