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Your Unbreakable Wholeness Richard Miller, PhD Founder & Chairman iRest Institute C-iRest, C-IAYT, ERYT500

Wholeness Innate intelligence within that informs and directs our life - Being, Responding, Interacting, Loving, Serving Vital that we learn to recognize and embody - Source of guidance at all levels: - Physical, Psychological, Relational, Spiritual 2

Wholeness Underlying Essence Always remains whole and intact √ Innate √ Ever-present √ Unchanging √ Unbreakable Can never be hurt, harmed, injured, destroyed Never needs fixing, changing, healing

Wholeness Enables us to not just survive, but to thrive in our life with… • Hardiness • Well-being • Security • Stability • Confidence 4

Hallmarks of Wholeness • Hardiness • Calm • Presence • Well-Being • Confidence • Compassion • Joy • Resilience • Empathy • Security • Patience • Stability • Clarity • Persistence • Intimacy • Value • Adaptability • Perseverance • Meaning • Energy • Attunement • Purpose • Love • Intimacy • Connection • Autonomy • Courage

Wholeness We are not practicing to become whole We are engaging From Our Already, Always Present Wholeness Amidst all changing states and conditions

Wholeness In harmony with ourselves, others, and the totality of the universe

Wholeness Normal Life Development Lose touch with our essential ground Being – Presence – Essence

Whenever we separate we will experience anxiety, fear and the feeling that something’s amiss in our lives. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Wholeness The Challenging News… Our family, cultural, personal experiences can enhance our sense of separation and diminish our ability to experience our innate Wholeness Our habitual patterns can become like neural cement, where we feel rigid and unable to adapt to changing circumstances

Wholeness The Good News… We are Hardwired for Wholeness We just need to know how to recognize, remember, engage, and embody our Unchanging, indestructible Wholeness amidst our daily life

Uncovering Wholeness Awaken subtle somatic cues - Orient, Listen, Hear, Recognize, Remember Engage simple approaches - Enhance Intra- and Interconnectedness - During all states of consciousness and circumstances

Uncovering Wholeness 1. Affirm Intention: Move from thinking to sensing 2. Connect to Innate Inner Resource of Being 3. Welcome Body as Somatic Sensation 4. Respond to Emerging Emotions & Cognitions 5. Traverse Continuum Separate self ➟ Witness ➟ Witnessing ➟ Being ➟ Wholeness 6. Integrate Wholeness into Worldly Life Ever-present resource

Uncovering Wholeness Affirm Intention vow, determination Support fulfilling vision/mission – Nourish and sustain neural connections – Re-Wire neural strategies for experiencing wholeness – Experience energy, steadiness, compassion, joy, equanimity – Meet the challenges of life

Uncovering Wholeness Interweave Inner Resource Throughout Practices and Day • Good medicine - Oxytocin, serotonin • Feel seen, heard, connected, belonging - Vaccinates against stress - Increases resiliency and well-being - Boosts immune system - Reduces: anxiety, depression - Enhances restful sleep • Enhances perspective of witnessing • Nourishes gratitude, love, kindness, compassion, peace

Uncovering Wholeness Welcome Body as Sensation • Promotes – Physical and Mental Well-Being • Amygdala deactivation and hippocampus activation • Feel Good Hormones • Immune, RSA, HRV Response • Sympathetic-Parasympathetic harmony • Access to subtle interceptive information • Reduces – Perception of pain – Fight-flight-freeze-submit-collapse mechanism • Rewires neural networks - Focusing & Present Centered Networks upregulated - Default network downregulated

Uncovering Wholeness Respond to Emerging Emotions & Cognitions • Promotes - Emotions and thoughts as ok to experience - Nonjudgmental welcoming, accepting, responding • Activates – Present centered network, insight – Proactive engagement and responsive action • Self-regulation, empowerment, social competence - Internal locus of control and ability to witness • Enhances - Communicating, assertiveness - Recognition of unchanging wholeness of being and well-being

Uncovering Wholeness Traverse Continuum Separate self ➟ Witness ➟ Witnessing ➟ Being ➟ Wholeness

Uncovering Wholeness Integrate BodySensing into Worldly Life • Interweave into every moment: 24-7-365 • Every sensation a messenger • Well-being, resilience, interconnected wholeness

Experiencing Wholeness Sensing Opposites 1. One hand 2. Opposite hand 3. Both hands at same time

Experiencing Wholeness Attention Everywhere 1. Front 2. Behind 3. Left 4. Right 5. Inside 6. Outside 7. Everywhere Abide as Being…

Uncovering Wholeness Felt Sense of Being and Well-Being i. Where am I? Spacious Spacious, Unlimited and whole vs. Contracted and limited ii. When am I? Timeless Outside time, thought and whole vs. Limited by time iii. How am I? Perfect Perfect and whole vs. Lacking and flawed iv. What am I? Connected Connected and whole vs. Confused and disconnected v. Who am I? Complete Complete and whole vs. Incomplete

Uncovering Wholeness Witness ➟ Witnessing i. Experience self as a witness/observer of everything that’s arising ii. Where and how do you experience this in the body iii. Dissolve into ‘being witnessing’ iv. Where and how do you experience this in your body

CONCLUSION

Wholeness Resource Infinite Possibility of Insight • Unbreakable heart-centered Wholeness • Activate Present Centered Network • Intra and Inter-Connectedness • • Repair Negative thinking • Dis-regulated systems • Restore Connection and harmony • Empathy, joy, compassion, equanimity, • well-being, resilience • Emotional and cognitive intelligence • Resiliency, stress reduction, restful sleepv •

Indestructible Wholeness

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