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with the self-care tools you need to navigate your daily life, and restore your inner sense of ease and well-being. As one Veteran from an iRest study at the Miami VA so beautifully said when asked for his reflections, “Every program I’d been in before finding iRest emphasized what was wrong about me. iRest showed me what’s right about me. Knowing what was right about me helped me the face what needed healing. Through my practice of iRest, I feel I finally came home.”
The 10 tools that form the iRest Program can be incorporated into every part of your daily life. These are ‘tools for life,' that foster health, healing, and wellness at all levels of your body, mind, and spirit. To produce true healing, treatment must reach and heal the deepest nooks and crannies within your body and mind. The iRest toolkit has been designed to do just that. The 10 tools include:
1. Affirming Your Heartfelt Mission. Being in touch with what it is that you truly want in life, so that you feel in harmony with yourself, and with life.
2. Affirming Your Intention. Establishing why you want to practice iRest today, and tomorrow. Intentions support you living your Heartfelt Mission.
3. Affirming Your Inner Resource. Finding an inner felt-sense where you feel secure, to which you can return at any time during iRest, or whenever you feel the need to feel grounded and at ease.
4. Practicing Bodysensing. Welcoming and being present with what you are experiencing in your body. Learning to feel, welcome, observe, and respond to sensation.
5. Practicing Breathsensing. Tuning into, observing, and actively engaging in the natural rhythm of your breath.
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