IRest Practice 34: I Am

Who or what is this “I” that’s experiencing all of these changing movements of mind, body, senses, and world? When we ask these questions, we realize there so no separate “I”, our “I” is just another thought arising in awareness.
Ultimately, there is only awareness.

When we are resting as awareness, there is no separate I who is experiencing something. When we rest as awareness, there’s only awareness, without anyone who is aware.

iRest Practice 34: I Am, 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

Transcript

Adjust your body so that you feel completely supported by the surface on which you're resting. Open your senses. And welcome the environment and sounds around you. Scan your body. And release any unnecessary tension. Welcome your inner resource. And the feeling of ease or well-being throughout your entire body. And mine. Sense an object that's in your awareness. Now ask the question. Who or what is aware of this object? The answer quite simply is. . . I am. Experience the felt sense of I AM in your body. And your heart. Now let the word am drop away. Feel only the sense of I in your heart. Now drop the word I. Just be. Before the thought I arises. Be with the stillness that remains. Feel how you're aware of this stillness. Allow the stillness to dissolve into awareness. Be awareness before thoughts rise. Allow the feeling of being-awareness to expand from your heart into all directions. Remain here, Being awareness. When you're ready to go back into your daily life. Open and close your eyes several times. And begin to move your body while being awareness. As you move about in your daily life. Experience how unchanging awareness is always present amidst your daily activities. And before moving on. Take a few moments to reflect.