An emotion is a sensation, a thought is a sensation, an image is a sensation. RM: We access all of our information through our body. Why is this so powerful and transformative? PMAG: You speak of a somatic connection in your programs, coming back to the body to heal and the state of witnessing. If there’s a situation that causes you anger, if in that moment of anger you bring in a feeling of well-being, you will not be hijacked by the anger, which opens the portal of creative insight and a different action. That well-being gives us a sense of heartiness, self-confidence, a sense of ground with which we can meet each moment, that’s where the resiliency starts to come in. RM: Whenever we have a difficult emotion, or a difficult circumstance, we want to pair it with a feeling of well-being that comes as we are able to rest in being. What part of the IRest program brings forth the resilience? PMAG: Your IRest program cultivates resiliency and well-being, which gives a breakthrough to healing and a better quality of life. It is a good way to let a challenging situation pass by without being engaged. If we were in a moment where we were wrestling with a desire to engage in a substance, it is past. Just coming into sensing the body, letting thinking subside, and opening the portal to a creative moment of insight, then we gain more ease, and may see a piece of the trauma drop away. Also as we rest in being, it opens a portal to insight and creativity that we would not have otherwise had if we were captured in thinking. RM: As we are able to rest in this ease of being, the normal ways of thinking, self-criticism, self-judgement, shame, and guilt begin to fade away and we begin to rewire in new responses. PMAG: How does coming back to oneself lead to breakthroughs for people living with trauma, PTSD, chronic pain or substance abuse? Sense the body as sensation which slows down the thinking, and the more we sense and add different parts of the body to sensing, the more we move into the sense of being. Instead of engaging in the next thought of what should I do, we take a momentary time out, and in that we sense our bodies. First step is orienting people that being is possible, and it’s a moment where we take a momentary time out from doing in the day. ![]() RM: Being is something we all know, and we slip into it every day, hopefully. PMAG: You speak of connecting people to their “own beingness”, what are the main ingredients to guide a person to a “state of beingness”? I feel strongly that we all have within us a perfect response to the what is, we just need to get out of our conditioning and accept the what is. How to be with themselves just as they are without trying to fix or change themselves, but the first step is always in being with what is, just as it is. Richard Miller: The primary step is teaching people how to welcome themselves. Through the IRest program, what would be the first step to healing? Parvati Magazine: You discovered yoga in the 1970’s, and spent years, as a clinical psychologist, researching the effects of integrating eastern and western philosophy to help people with trauma, PTSD, and chronic pain, and founded the IRest program. Parvati Magazine’s yoga editor Ella Isakov interviewed iRest founder, yoga teacher and psychologist Richard Miller.
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