All meditation points to that anyway, but this was so specific and that you kind of lifted them up and out. And this is the place, this is sort of like the embedded work in yoga where psychology, with depth psychology, where you meet your shadow where you meet your uglier side, your judgments, the thoughts that we're all trying to pretend aren't there. I don't know why but the light bulb went off. And that was so interesting to see how this yoga has been offering. Instead of running from the monster, you go: "Hello, monster" and you have a conversation almost with it, you have this, you have a relationship with it. Instead of trying to push them down, you just let them come up, like in a dream like a monster. And in iRest they really make you meet your mind and your negative thoughts and your judgments and you meet. We all have, we talked about the shadow and psychology. When we talked about there's all these things and theory and all these ways of meeting, kind of meeting your mind meeting your shadow. But more than that, my background in psychology and my interest in the mind and the emotions and how we get stuck and how we get out of being stuck.įor me, like a light bulb went off. But actually just in the idea of not putting the barrier at the Sanskrit. So when I met James and I did his intro weekend, I was so pleasantly surprised to have somebody having translated that work into a more kind of Western language, to my language, English, specifically. These words they would use was too distant for me, then it would kind of put a barrier for me to really go deeper. I didn't know the words, the language didn't translate for me, at the time, even though I knew the language, because I've been around a long time, like Sankalpa: "Look at your Sankalpa". To me unaccessible, to my mind when I was relaxing, there was somebody using. Because the yoga Nidras I have gone to were. When I was getting ready to invite the iRest folks before I really knew James, I was familiar with yoga Nidra, just like most of us have had a few yoga Nidras. Relaxing, being your own therapist and saying “hello” to the monster in your mind - Hilary Brown
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