We could all use some ways to connect with our own sense of peace these days. I’m hoping to post a series of tools for managing the stress and anxiety of uncertainty as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic together as a community. . [[RESOURCING]] I invite you to bring to the front of your mind a person, place, or thing (a resource) that brings you the feeling you’re needing most right now: safety, connection, calm, solitude? Now if you’d like to, sense into what’s happening in your body as you think of this resource. As you notice what’s happening inside, try to connect even more deeply with these internal sensations to describe whether they have any qualities you notice—location in your body, shape, size, color, temperature, texture? Try to think about more details about your resource, a particularly strong favorite memory of it, a special detail about it? Notice what happens inside as you deepen your emotional connection to your resource. Do you notice any more pleasant sensations that come forward? Do the pleasant sensations move or shift at all from how you initially noticed them? Whenever you’re ready, just allow yourself to notice what it feels like to turn your intentional effort toward thinking about this resource and notice how it feels to know you can do this whenever you want or need to, and when you shift back to your present surroundings and situation, check in and see if you notice a difference in your state from before you resourced. Remember that this tool is in your toolbox for whenever you want to practice it. Part of what is so helpful about resourcing is that it can help you develop more awareness of what it feels like when you have pleasant or neutral sensations, vs. the hyperawareness we tend to have of our negative sensations. . Resourcing is a tool I learned within the Trauma Resiliency/Community Resiliency Models. Please check out the book Building Resilience to Trauma by Elaine Miller-Karas for more info, or go to TraumaResourceInstitute.com / @traumaresourceinstitute . #StressRelief #TraumaResiliencyModel #TraumaRecovery #CopingSkills #MentalHealth #COVID_19 #Coronavirus #AnxietyRelief #AnxietyCoping #CopingWithAnxiety https://www.instagram.com/p/B9-Fsh0AbJm/?igshid=bcxrat321kkp
