IRest Practice 20: Interweaving Your Inner Resource

This practice explains how and invites you to interweave your Inner Resource (See iRest Practices 6 and 7) as you are practicing iRest. It invites you to sense your Inner Resource as you are welcoming your feelings and emotions (Practices 16 & 17), their opposites (Practice 18) and their continuum (Practice 19). The practice of interweaving your Inner Resource can help you stay grounded and connected to yourself during your most challenging feelings & emotions.

iRest Practice 20: Interweaving Your Inner Resource 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

It's helpful to affirm and interweave your inner resource through every step you take during your practice of I-Rest. This helps you stay grounded and connected to yourself through even your most challenging feelings and emotions. Here's how to affirm and interweave your inner resource of well-being when you're engaging a particular feeling and emotion or working with continuums of opposites. With your eyes opened 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. The feeling of your body breathing itself. Sensations that are present throughout your body. Now welcome and experience your inner resource within your body. Your felt sense of being secure, At ease. Connected. Grounded Take a few moments to welcome and experience your inner resource throughout your entire body. Now welcome the feeling or emotion you're working with. Now again, Feel your inner resource. Now again, Experience the feeling and emotion. Taking your time, Feel and turn each opposite of feeling and emotion on your continuum. Alternating with your inner resource of well-being. Then, When you're ready and at the same time Feel both your inner resource and both opposites of feeling and emotion. Feel how this affects your body and mind. It's not possible to experience both opposites and your inner resource at the same time with your mind. Instead of using your mind, Sense with your body. In order to feel everything together. Allow your mind to defocus and allow both opposites and your inner resource to all be present at the same time. When you've completed this practice, Take time to reflect. Think of any actions you've discovered as intentions that you plan to follow through with in your daily life.