IRest Practice 2: Messenger Meditation

This practice is designed to reacquaint you with your basic being as the doorway that leads to your experiencing your basic wholeness, health, and well-being. Your ability to access being and wholeness at a moment's notice provides you with an ever-present tool that you can use to heal your PTSD. As you move through this practice, take as much time as you need with each section before moving on to the next part.

Practice 2: Messenger Meditation 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

Transcript

Lie or sit in a comfortable position. Open your senses to your surroundings. Sound. Color Open to the feeling of the environment around you. The touch of air on your skin. The sensations where your body touches the surface that's providing support. The feeling of your entire body. And your felt sense of simply being. Take a moment and enjoy this moment of simply being. Take delight in not having to be somewhere. Let go of whatever you were previously doing or thinking. Just being. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go. Simply enjoy the easy feeling of just being. Merge with and lose your sense of separation from this feeling of being. Feel yourself not just in being, But completely absorbed as being. Become being. As you listen to each of the following questions. Let go of everything you've previously heard or experienced. Enjoy the easy feeling of simply being while you answer each question from your own experience as being. First messenger. Feeling and experiencing yourself as being. When you're just being. How would you describe your experience of where you're located in space? Where, For instance, Is your innermost center and outermost boundary. When you're just being, Do you have a distinct border or boundary? Second messenger. When you're just being. Without going into thinking or memory. What's your experience of time? Third messenger. When you're just being. Is there anything that you need to acquire? That will make you any better or more perfect than you already are as being. Fourth messenger. When you're just being. Is there anything you need to understand that would make you any more connected than you already are as being? Fifth messenger. When you're just being. Is there anything you need to do? That by accomplishing it. Would make you any more complete than you already are as being. Take a few moments now to simply be. Without going into memory or thinking. Feel your wholeness of being Spacious. Timeless. Perfect. Connected. Complete. Just as you are. Just as it is. Without going into thinking. Just being. As you're ready. Taking your time. While experiencing the feeling of being and wholeness. Sense your physical body. And the feeling of being. Feel the sensation of your body touching the surface that's supporting it. And the feeling of being. The touch of air on your skin. And the feeling of being. Light. Color and sound. And the feeling of being. The feeling of the space around you. And the feeling of being. Now open your eyes and notice what you see, Hear, And feel. While also noticing the feeling of being. Now close your eyes and reaffirm the feeling of being. Now open and close your eyes several times while continuing to affirm the feeling of being. Now as you're ready. Come back to sensing yourself fully alert. With your eyes open. Feeling present to this moment. Your body. Your thoughts? Your emotions. The environment around you. Even as you continue to experience your underlying feeling of being and wholeness.