Resourcing
Resourcing means deliberately calling to mind something steadying - a person, place, memory, pet - and noticing where you feel it in the body. The 'felt sense' (Eugene Gendlin's term for the body's pre-verbal sense of a situation) does the work; the picture is just the way in.
Resourcing is a somatic practice of bringing something steadying to mind and tracking what shifts in the body in response. Nervous-system states are complex and individual. This is orientation, not diagnosis.
- warmth in the chest or belly
- a softening in the shoulders or jaw
- an easier breath
- 'nothing comes to mind'
- 'this is too small to count'
- the picture comes, the body lags - that's okay
Contact with a felt sense of safety - even imagined - can shift the body's state. The exact mechanism isn't settled (mental imagery, memory, parasympathetic recruitment all probably contribute). What's consistent across people is that a real resource changes something in the body; a forced one doesn't.
- forcing the resource to be 'big enough'
- judging the body for not responding right away
- let the details come - light, sound, smell
- notice where in the body it lands
- let it be a little bigger if it wants to, no forcing
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