You have the ability to experience growth, ease, pleasure, and vibrancy in your daily life. Together, we will reinforce your biology and nervous system's naturally arising support and resources available moment-to-moment. Over time with these exercises, your body and mind will be able to process and release stress effortlessly and you will enjoy healthy human pleasure more and more often.
Exercise 2: See it, Say it, Support it!
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This exercise allows your neurobiology to receive the necessary feedback from the environment to map itself in the here-and-now and positively reinforce your connection to supportive sensory inputs. This is pivotal along the process of increasing your capacity for processing and improving biological organization.
The goal here is to relax your efforts and attention so that you can bring conscious awareness to ways in which your body is already in process of perceiving your surroundings. Bringing your awareness outside of yourself can be the best care you can do to support your internal systems. Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) can get stuck in states of survival even when our current environment is now safe and perhaps even quite enjoyable! So let’s start mapping our current environment and creating new pathways for your ANS to feel safe, flexible, and responsive to the resources abundant in the here & now. |
See it, Say It, Support it!
An Orientation exercise from Organic Intelligence® End of Trauma Course. A highly recommended 12-week course for Post-Trauma Growth.
See* it
Let your eyes go where they want to go, and as they do, simply see what you see. Take notice - what is here? What is neutral? What is pleasant? What is interesting?
ex I notice the warmth of the blanket
*You also can extend the practice with your other senses, hearing, touch, smell, taste -- but our eyes do have a uniquely integrative pathway for our brainstem to receive this support.
Say it
As you notice something that you experience as neutral or pleasant, name what you observe/experience aloud or within your mind
example: "I feel the warmth of the blanket"
Support it
Add a "reward" from one of your channels of experience, Images (I), Sensation, (S), Meaning (M), of Affect (A), which ever one is most readily available to offer support.
examples:
I: I remember watching my favorite movie the other night with this blanket
S: I feel a comfortable pressure and relaxing warmth on my legs.
M: Think a thought like "YES" or "That's what I'M talking about! or "I like that!"
A: Be with the feeling of positive emotions (glad, proud, happy, etc)
An Orientation exercise from Organic Intelligence® End of Trauma Course. A highly recommended 12-week course for Post-Trauma Growth.
See* it
Let your eyes go where they want to go, and as they do, simply see what you see. Take notice - what is here? What is neutral? What is pleasant? What is interesting?
ex I notice the warmth of the blanket
*You also can extend the practice with your other senses, hearing, touch, smell, taste -- but our eyes do have a uniquely integrative pathway for our brainstem to receive this support.
Say it
As you notice something that you experience as neutral or pleasant, name what you observe/experience aloud or within your mind
example: "I feel the warmth of the blanket"
Support it
Add a "reward" from one of your channels of experience, Images (I), Sensation, (S), Meaning (M), of Affect (A), which ever one is most readily available to offer support.
examples:
I: I remember watching my favorite movie the other night with this blanket
S: I feel a comfortable pressure and relaxing warmth on my legs.
M: Think a thought like "YES" or "That's what I'M talking about! or "I like that!"
A: Be with the feeling of positive emotions (glad, proud, happy, etc)