IRest Practice 17: Proactively Engaging Feelings & Emotions

When you deny your feelings & emotions, peace & well-being remain out of reach. When you welcome & allow your feelings & emotions, you're able to recognize & experience lasting peace & well-being. Fearlessness & peace spread throughout your life when you're no longer afraid of experiencing fear or joy. When you're open to experiencing all of your feelings & emotions, anxiety & fear no longer control your life.
This practice involves engaging your feelings & emotions. It's designed to hone your ability to welcome & respond to every feeling or emotion that arises within or around you.
iRest Practice 17: Proactively Engaging Your Feelings & Emotions from the iRest Program for Healing PTSD: A Proven Effective Approach to Using Yoga Nidra Meditation & Deep Relaxation Techniques to Overcome Trauma. Written by Richard C. Miller, PhD. Recorded by Erin Finck, TCTSY-F, RYT 500, Level 1 iRest Teacher
Guided Meditation, Mindfulness

Transcript

With your eyes open or closed. Welcome the environment and sounds around you. The touch of air on your skin. The sensations where your body touches the surface that's supporting it. Take a few moments to experience the feeling and mood of your body. As you're doing this. Locate a feeling or emotion that's present. Sensing where and how you experience this feeling or emotion in your body. Now imagine this feeling or emotion walking in through a door. Or stepping into a meadow. Go with the first image that appears in your imagination. What does your feeling or emotion look like? What is its shape, Form, Color, Size? Is it formless? Or does it take the shape of a mineral, Rock? Plant. Animal. Or person. If it's a human being. How old is it? And how is it dressed? Take a few moments and simply welcome. With your imagination. The shape and form your feeling or motion takes. Now imagine this feeling or emotion standing or sitting in a chair at a comfortable distance in front of you. You're going to ask your feeling or emotion three questions. First, You'll ask it your question. Then, You will imagine yourself as the feeling or emotion speaking the answer back to you. The three questions you'll ask in a moment are. . . What do you want? What do you need? What action are you asking me to take? Now face your feeling or emotion and ask it. What do you want? Now imagine you are your feeling or emotion speaking the answer. Listen to what it has to say. Next, Ask it, What do you need? Now imagine you are your feeling or emotion speaking the answer. Listen to what it has to say. Next, Ask it. What action are you asking me to take? Now imagine you are your feeling or emotion speaking the answer. Listen to what it has to say. Take a few moments to reflect on what you're now experiencing in your body and mind. When you're ready. Take time to reflect. Any actions you've discovered that you need to take become intentions. When you set an intention, Be sure to follow through with it in your daily life. Following through with your actions and intentions builds self-trust and self-esteem, Important ingredients in your journey of healing.