🔼: [[Practices 🕯️]] # 🕯️ Resourcing Resourcing is about helping our [[💡 Parts|Parts]] find [[☀️ Connection]] with [[Qualities of Presence ☀️|Qualities of Presence]] through external means – a kind of portal or [[🛠 Anchors|🛠 Anchor]] to [[💡 Presence|Presence]]. A resource for the hurt, not one to get away from it. Being receptive to the field of love. - [[🔑 Presence evokes Presence]] - [[🔑 We need each other]] - [[🔑 Everyone needs help]] ###### 🦮 How to Resource There are lots of ways to resource. Everyone has [[☀️ Self-Energy]]. Animals, trees, the sky, the earth, all have it – [[🔑 Presence is non-dual]], and the more ways we have to connect to this energy the more stable the connection becomes. [[🔑 Trust your experience and intuition|🔑 Find what works for you]]. - Invite the energy of the buddha, a teacher, a therapist or practitioner, Guides, a friend. Avatars for love, surrogates for love. - [[🛠 Ideal Parent Figure Protocol]]. - Making or taking in books, music, films, artwork. - Connecting with self – [[🕯️ Loving Touch]], [[☀️ Equanimity]], [[🧘 Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation]], [[🕯️ Movement and Exercise 👟|Movement]], [[🕯️ Sankalpas]]. - Connecting with trusted others, [[⭐️ Community]], animals - Connecting with spirit/Source – prayer, church, shamanic journeying, meditation groups, spirit in all things - Connecting with Nature – being in [[⭐️ Outdoors|⭐ Nature]], imaginal connection. Nourishing foods. - Connecting with Place – remembering or imagining environment where you feel safe or at home - Connecting with culture/tradition – rituals, holidays - Consider your favorite moments from the year, make them resources, strong anchors. As we take these in, it's important to slow down and [[🔑 Let the good land|🔑 letting it land]]. [[🔑 As speed decreases, wonder increases]]. %% Imagine a food you feel really nourished by and that you like. - Feeling cared for. Pendulation: - Think of a memory where you felt supported - Think of a slightly stressful thing from the past week or two, a 3-4/10 just feel into the edge of it %% [^1]: