Lesson 1
Introduction To Intuitive Guidance
Today we practiced 'Intuitive Guidance'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Commit to return.
Intuitive guidance is a deep internal practice of reintegration and release. Over time you will trust the process and your parts will trust you within it.
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Lesson 2
QnA: How Parts Hold Onto Pain
In this session we discuss how parts hold onto pain. Things happened in the past that that were too much to process at the time, so we hold onto what we did to survive.
Parts get stuck in a role: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or fantasy. We continue to do what we did to keep us alive.
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Lesson 3
Intuitive Guidance Parts Work
Today we practiced 'Intuitive Guidance Parts Work'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Scan the body from head to toe and note the tension, sensations and parts.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Commit to return.
Your parts are holding onto things from the past, their roles and how they kept you safe. Adopting the attitude of a loving inner parent, we sit and listen and accept.
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Lesson 4
QnA: Building Trust With Our Inner Child
In this session we discuss how to build trust with your inner child (parts work) through a process of regulation, relation, and relation. We discuss how to connect to these parts and offer them a safe space to share and integrate.
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Lesson 5
Deep Parts Connection
Today we practiced 'Deep Parts Connection'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Ask ‘what do you need me to know, see, feel, and understand?’ Get curious about the response.
We hold that the body keeps the score and that our parts will express themselves through sensations, thoughts and other mental phenomena. Be there for it and get curious.
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Lesson 6
QnA: Staying With The Body Through Fear
In this session we discuss how to stay with the body when doing deep inner parts work (shadow work/Inner child work/Intuitive Guidance). We do this through being curious, going slowly, and pendulating with the breath, gently enquiring as to what is inside the fear.
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Lesson 7
Intuitive Guidance For Self Healing
Today we practiced 'Intuitive Guidance For Self Healing'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Always end with a commitment to return. This is not a 'once and done' thing, but a slow and gradual healing process.
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Lesson 8
QnA: Staying Regulated When Meditating?
In this session we discus how to stay regulated when diving deep into meditation, shadow/inner child/parts work. We cover somatic regulation, Internal Family Systems concept of 'self', as well as general grounding techniques. Go slow!
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Lesson 9
Release, Reintegrate & Heal
Today we practiced 'Intuitive Guidance'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Ask ‘How old are you? How old do you think I am?’ Get curious about the response. Let this part know your age and the safety and wisdom that has come from it.
Ask 'What are you doing for us? How are you keeping us safe?"
We hold onto things for years or even decades, by connecting to these parts we can eventually help them to release, reconnect, and reintegrate.
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Lesson 10
QnA: Movement During Meditation?
In this session we discuss what to do if you feel called to move or sway during a meditation session, approaching this answer from a self healing perspective as well as a more 'traditional' meditative approach.
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Lesson 11
What Our Parts Hide
Today we practiced 'Intuitive Guidance'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Ask, 'Do you have anything you would like to share?' and 'Are you hiding anything?'
You may get a vision of a door, or locked box, or other symbolic imagery. You don't need to open these spaces (you can if you feel called to do so and the part consents), but it is enough just to sit with your part and see/connect with them in relation to what they are holding onto.
Go slow, and remember self care!
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Lesson 12
QnA: Repeating The Cycles
In this session we discuss how our inner parts kept us safe through various defense mechanisms (fight, flight, freeze, fawn, fantasy) and continue to do so... although now, when safe, those responses may no longer be helpful.
We discuss ways to break those inner cycles and embrace the moment for what it is now, as opposed to an echo of the past.
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Lesson 13
Intuitive Guidance For Release & Reintegration
Today we practiced 'Intuitive Guidance For Release & Reintegration'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Ask this part if it wants to return/reintegrate and what it needs to do so. Offering the words, or intention behind the words, 'It's okay, you are safe, I accept you, and invite you to release'.
With time and trust, parts may wish to release. Hold space for them and offer them what they need. This may be a symbolic offering of an element or a internal shift, or perhaps a commitment to accept or act in a certain way. If it is in your capacity, offer this to your part and end with a commitment to return.
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Lesson 14
QnA: On Processing Greif
In this session we discuss the grieving process, highlighting how everyone's process will be unique to them and the relationship they have lost, covering the grief cycle and its implications (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance)
We also discuss the different ways of identifying and connect to the different parts that form over time in response to trauma and life events, talking on the importance of awareness, acceptance, and action in relation to Intuitive Guidance, shadow work, and Internal Family Systems.
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Lesson 15
Evolving Inner Visions
Today we practiced 'Evolving Inner Visions'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Allow this part to express it self as a vision, symbol, or memory. Explore this vision and perhaps offer a resolution.
Our parts can get 'stuck' replaying the same thing again and again. They may express as a symbol that you can process. So perhaps plant the seed, release some pressure from the dam, or open the door. Go slow and trust your intuition/Self/heart space to know what to do.
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Lesson 16
QnA: We Must Accept Reality To Heal
In this session we discuss the the need to accept reality in order to heal. If we deny the truth of what is arising, how can we do anything that will actually address it?
We also discuss the analogy of the dam, the idea that, in order to survive, we block off and push down everything. This works, until it doesn't. Then the dam breaks.
As well as talk about how to stop taking on the negative energies of those around us without blocking off from the world entirely.
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Lesson 17
Become Your Own Inner Therapist
In this session we practiced 'Becoming Our Own Inner Therapist'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a pair of parts in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to them. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Allow these parts to express themselves in relation to one another. What role are they in? What do they fear? What would they prefer to be doing?
From the Self we can act as our own inner therapist/mediator/inner parent. Listen and feel openly. Approaching and accepting whatever arises, with an attitude of compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
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Lesson 18
QnA: The Lack Of Silence In Society
In this session we discuss the the fundemental lack of silence in our society. We did not evolve to live in constant a sensorium. Endless opportunity for distraction is not healthy or evolutionally beneficial.
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Lesson 19
Connections Between Parts
In this session we practice 'Intuitive Guidance'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
See if this part is in conflict or opposition with other parts, invite them in also.
We can act as our own inner therapist/parent/mediator between parts that ultimately have the same goal: to keep us safe.
find out what they want and how they are going about doing it. Then look for a solution that works for all.
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Lesson 20
QnA: Why You Keep Self Sabotaging
In this session we discuss the why me may self sabotage and how to stop. Highlighting the benefits of a comfortable rut. Compared to the unknown/change, a comfortable rut offers the safety of the familiar. Safety and thriving are not necessarily the same things.
We also discuss how to feel deeply, both emotions and the present moment.
We finish with poem 'Seed'.
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Lesson 21
Connecting To an Exile
In this session we practice 'Connecting To an Exile'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
See if this part is in conflict or opposition with other parts, invite them in also.
If you discover a part that is not doing anything, that 'has no role', and is quite silent, you may have discovered an inner exile. A part that is holding onto pain and shame.
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Lesson 22
QnA: Connecting To Exiles With Intuition
In this session we discuss what to do when you discover an exile within; a part of you that took on the emotional load of the overwhelm of the past.
You connect, you listen, you feel and over time they will eventually release.
"It is okay, you are safe, I accept you, and invite you to release".
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Lesson 23
Conclusion To Intuitive Guidance
In this session we practice 'Intuitive Guidance'.
Place your hand on your heart space and feel the warmth. Connect into this space, with the words 'I am here, now'. This space, the self, is pure, incorruptible and whole. Use it as your anchor for the session.
Invite a part in to work with today. Feel the sensations and open your mind space to it. Approach and accept everything that arises with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence.
Just sit with this part and gently offer love, compassion and acceptance.
Intuitive Guidance is a slow process, one that will take patience and dedication. Keep going!
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Lesson 24
QnA: When There's Too Much To Process
In this session we discuss what happens when there is too much to process. How to handle inner parts that are stuck in overwhelm, in fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and fantasy.
Feel the sensations deeply that you intuitively feel like you can, if it is too much, go slow and with love.
We also discuss how to know if we are connected to the Self/Heart Space. And finish with a discussion of 'Wise Mind' from Dialect Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
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Lesson 25
Intuitive Guidance Key Principles & Recap
In this final session we recap the core principles of Intuitive Guidance.
Remember to begin in the Self (heart space), regulate the nervous system, approach your parts with compassionate curiosity and calm confidence. Trust the slow process of healing. Your parts are not your enemies. They are trying to keep you safe and, with enough trust, can begin to release, reconnect, and reintegrate.
If you have any questions about the course, your experiences, or the practice itself, please ask them in the classroom. Use this feature! I'll respond with voice notes to help guide you on your journey.
You can return to this course, or sessions from, as many times as you like.
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