Is Inquiry Meditation for me?​
The meditators who do this deep work are seeking highly concentrated healing and deep relief for their trauma, triggers, and/or childhood wounds--and they want to experience results from their first experience.
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Many Inquiry Meditators come to IM having tried other modalities and are happy to find, finally, the trauma resolution they have been so earnestly seeking--and they are delighted to find that that resolution often is possible in months rather than years and years.
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What is Inquiry Meditation?​​​
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​Inquiry Meditation (IM) is a somatic healing modality that includes elements of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, Classic Pleasure Theory, The Work by Byron Katie, and Vipassana Meditation.​
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"Inquiry Meditation is a safe space."
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Why does Inquiry Meditation begin working so quickly?
Inquiry Meditation is not a quick fix. There is no quick fix for trauma healing.
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IM, though, is a concentrated dose of what heals pain at its roots: evermore direct and gentle engagement--what I call relationship--with the pain. ​
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This is why the modality begins working so quickly.
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What do we do during sessions?
Read on to find out!
What happens during sessions?
We begin by feeling for where pain is coming up in response to the problem or stress you're experiencing.
The pain may be in your chest, for example. You won't have to look hard for this pain--it wants to be seen! (This applies to numbness as well.)
Once we've identified where the pain is occurring, we engage with it.
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I call IM a pleasure practice because the process of our interaction with the pain--the healing process itself, that is--feels really good!
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Your body registers this good feeling as immediate relief from your suffering. ​
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Results Inquiry Meditators report
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Relief from ruminating, blaming, pontificating, analyzing; the bodily felt feeling of being truly moved on​​​
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Less panic, anxiety, triggering--and fewer panic/anxiety/trigger-inducing situations
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A greater sense of autonomy and confidence
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