IRest Practice 6: Experiencing Your Inner Resource

You possess within yourself an inner resource that's designed to empower you to feel in control of and at ease with every experience you have. It is a place of refuge in you, a feeling of constant well-being.

iRest teaches you to tune in to and weave in your inner resource into every experience of your life. It enables you to remember that indestructible security, perfect wholeness, and resilient well-being that are always available.

Your inner resource enables you to deal with harmful emotions, thoughts, and situations. Affirming and experiencing your inner resource over and over again, during every iRest practice, as well as throughout your day, reminds you that it's always supporting you.

iRest Practice 6: Experiencing 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,

Journal Prompt

Transcript

In your journal, Write down your answers to the following question. Your answers make up your inner resource. When I feel a sense of well-being, Peace, Or ease of being, Where and how do I feel this in my body? After you write down the words and phrases that make up your inner resource, Take time to sense how each word or phrase rings true in your body and mind. Then arrange them in order of their importance to you. Circle one, Two, Or three of the words or phrases that feel most important to you. Repeat these words and phrases several times to embed them into your memory as prompts that represent and activate your inner resource. Here are some words that others have used to represent their inner resource. Secure, Connected, At ease, Comfortable, Content, Still, Clear, Grounded, Peaceful, Expansive, Open, Safe, Stable, Balanced, Resilient, Flowing, Well-being, Being. As you consider your inner resource, Write down any negative opposites that may arise. You'll learn in detail how to work with these negative opposites in chapters seven and eight. For now, Just note them in your journal. Then, During your practice of I-Rest, As well as throughout your day, Consider and affirm your inner resource as an inner felt sense that you take to be true. Allow your inner resource to be your trusted friend that accompanies you on every step of your journey through life.