In this episode, Christine leads Hallie and David (and you) through an exercise in which we express our parts' concerns by journaling with our dominant hand and then respond from Love/Spirit/SELF with our non dominant hand.

Christine gives an overview of the many sources which use a similar method to access wisdom from Divine Source - Liz Gilbert's Letters from Love, The Morning Pages encouraged in The Artist's Way, Journal Speak developed by Nicole Sachs to heal chronic pain, Conversations With God by Neal Donald Walsh, and Spirit by Bob Falconer. Christine also talks about the influence of Jill Bolte Taylor's ideas in her book "Whole Brain Living," which made Christine wonder if our Self exists, or is at least channeled by, our right brain. She talks about the parallels between the parts and Self in IFS and JBT's "4 Characters" of the brain in this video.

Christine, Hallie, and David all do the exercise and share the responses they got from Love/Spirit/SELF as well as their experience using the exercise in the recent past. Check out our SLB Instagram account if you'd like to see the writing that came out of it for us.

Please feel free to try the exercise and let us know how it went in the comments below.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Theme Song
0:42 Exercise Overview
1:52 Exercise Influences
11:32 Exercise Preview
16:08 Step One - Parts Writing with Right Hand
18:00 Step Two - Parts Question and Left Hand Reply
20:08 Christine's Experience
24:45 David's Experience
38:24 Hallie's Experience
48:17 Past Experiences with Exercise
57:24 Outro & Goodbyes
57:57 Theme Song

In this episode of The Self Led Besties Podcast, David gently leads Hallie and Christine through three groups of exercises that act as inroads to Self Energy:

1.⁠ ⁠Presence
2.⁠ ⁠Awareness
3.⁠ ⁠Qualities of Self

You are welcome to join us in these experiences/experiments or just listen. At about the 46 minute marker, Christine and Hallie share for their parts' reactions to the exercises.

If you participate in the exercises, please share about your experience in the comment section. We'd love to hear from you!

0:00 Intro
0:17 Theme Song
0:42 Exercise Overview
4:38 First Path To Self - Presence P1
9:28 First Path to Self - Presence P2
18:09 Awareness Overview
20:57 Second Path to Self - Awareness P1
25:22 Second Path to Self - Awareness P2
35:36 Qualities Overview
37:46 Third Path to Self - Qualities
46:38 Christine's Experience
56:38 Hallie's Experience
1:13:03 Outro & Goodbyes
1:17:22 Theme Song

In today's episode of the Self Led Besties Podcast, Hallie beautifully leads David and Christine through a meditation and journaling exercise of listening to activated parts and receiving compassion from a Self energy surrogate and our own future Self before offering compassion out to others.

After the exercise, Christine and David share about their activated parts and the messages they received from Self. Christine shares for parts activated by events in Minnesota and David shares for parts polarized around healing. In the spirit of experimentation on which our podcast is based, we tried offering just an audio experience with no edits for this episode.

There will be large gaps of silence in this video/audio so that you can follow along in the exercise with us. You are welcome to join us or forward and just listen to our experiences. This is an exercise you can come back to repeatedly whenever parts feel activated (see chapters if you'd like to access a specific part of the exercise).

If you do the exercise and would like to share what came up for you, please do that in the comments section. In this way, we can all be a community of compassionate with-ness for one another.

0:00 Intro
1:48 Theme Song
2:28 Exercise Intro
5:01 Finding Trailheads
9:32 Writing About Trailheads
16:25 First Flow Of Compassion
21:55 Second Flow Of Compassion
26:36 Third Flow Of Compassion
32:38 Exercise Summary
35:29 Christine's Experience
45:42 David's Experience
55:38 Outro & Full Theme Song

Welcome to the Pod, Besties!

You’ll find us chatting about all things Self-Leadership, parts, self-compassion, nonviolent communication & so much more.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome!
02:03 Our Connection To Each Other
16:55 Parts Check-In
29:14 Everything As An Experiment
32:42 They Love You They Really Love You
37:15 Our Podcast Name
40:16 Self-Energy Surrogates
57:52 Until Next Time!
59:12 Special Brian Appearance!
59:27 Full Theme Song :)

Show Notes:

• Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach Training
• Ordinary Sacred IFS Meditation for Grief
• Outshining Trauma by Ralph De La Rosa
• Ordinary Sacred YouTube Videos on Outshining Trauma (found within Come to the Library Series)
• • Self Energy Surrogates video

Christine Dixon: Instagram, Website
David Hilton: Instagram, Website: Mindful-Nondual Therapy Hallie Shapiro: Instagram, Website: Wise Inside Self Leadership Coaching SLB Podcast: Instagram