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Connect with a past experience of courage, visualize yourself embodying that strength, and explore how your inner parts respond to this courageous state.

Science

Recovery & Healing

Healing

Psychology

Guided Imagery

Visualization

English

Dr. Richard Schwartz guides the listener to engage their parts and, together, view a courageous moment from the individual's past. The listener experiences the reactions from their parts and asks permission to embody the bravery they see in themself, sharing the feelings their parts experience as they move through this process.

Courage: Internal Family Systems (IFS)

 So once again we'll take some deep breaths. This meditation is designed to help you embody another quality of self if your parts allow it. So this time think of a time in your life when you felt a lot of courage. It would be courage to speak about something scary, courage to act, courage to do something that a lot of parts of you were afraid to. And again you can scan through your past, looking at different points until you find the time that it feels right. When you find that courageous version of you, put that person in a room by him or herself and you're outside the room looking at that person through a window. And see how you feel toward that, that earlier version of you who held such courage and clarity, strength. See how your parts react to that person. And see if they'd be willing to let you embody that quality, to become that you, to enter that space, even though circumstances are different now. But if they're not willing, that's okay. You can just explore their fears with them about what they're afraid would happen if they let you embody that quality of self, even for a little while. But if they are willing, then go ahead and enter the room and step into that person's body and just feel that courage in your body now. Just noticing what it feels like again. And seeing how your parts react to your being, that courageous state with them. And see if they're willing to let you embody that quality of self, to become that you, to embody that quality of self. And the time feels right, can begin to shift your focus back to the outside world. But again, see how possible it is to hold this courageous state, this clear, strong state, even as you come back, even as you open your eyes.