Inner-Work Place Activity

The question I posed to myself during this activity was:

Beyond my ethical obligations as a counselor, how can I best respond when I feel like I have limited access to the people who are abusing children?

I followed these steps:

1) Think of a problem, question, or challenge you are facing and right it down. Since this article has been written in relationship to trauma, feel free to think of a problem, question or dilemma related to trauma and write it down.
2) Take some time to make yourself as comfortable as possible – Experiment with moving your feet, changing your position, and repositioning your arms until you are comfortable. Take several slow deep breaths. Scan your body from head to toe and ask yourself where in your body is the deepest part of yourself located, whatever that may mean to you – let your intuition answer.
3) What is it like there? What is the quality of feeling? Is there sound? Color? Movement? How does it connect to your breathing? How does it move you?
4) Associate that deepest inner part in your body to a physical spot on the earth and let yourself go there in your mind – shapeshift and become that sport with its sounds or silence, it’s movement or stillness. Are there aromas? What is the feeling quality there? Take time to really feel into that Earthspot so you become it. Draw a quick energy sketch of it and then write down a couple of words to describe it.
5) Now feel your self back into that Earthspot, and when you are there, look back at your everyday self who has the problem, question, or challenge and allow your response to emanate from your Earthspot mind. What does it have to say and how does it respond?

Adapted from Innerwork – Process Mind by Cathy Bernatt http:www.creating.bz

Here was my drawing:

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