Hello everyone, When working with parts that may get triggered during an alignment, I invite you to get curious and create a safe space for the part to express it self to to you. It has presented itself for a reason! So, a sort of introducing the part to your Self. That way you can get to know this part from Self energy in the leadership role. This creates the safe space, free from any of our judgemental or critical parts. Self energy is safe. When in Self energy, we can ask our other parts, that can get in the way of this connection between our Self and the part that is showing up, and we can invite the other parts to pull back or soften back so that we can get to know this vulnerable part. SELF - Self is the seat of our consciousness - a different level of entity than parts or voices or emotions; Self is invisible because it is the “you” who is observing and witnessing Qualities of Self - when Self is in the driver seat or as Leader of your system and Life - Self is calm, clarity, confident, connected, compassionate, courageous, curious, creative - but also acceptance, harmony, gratitude, joy. Everyone has a Self, but it can be obscured by the extreme of parts Unburdening releases the Self. When we are parts lead, we assume we are the noise vs the peace behind the noise that the Self is. PARTS Parts, on the other hand, show up as voices, emotions, beliefs, thoughts, feelings - we call this thinking!! Parts are sub personalities: - they interact internally in situations and styles that are similar to the ways that people interact with other - All parts are valuable and want positive roles; they have potentials, purposes, gifts that they are born with - They can become extreme and destructive because of life’s experiences; can then often hold extreme beliefs, emotions, and thoughts - They are acting in a way that they believe are best for your system - how we understand our parts determine how relate to them - Are they stuck in the past Parts can be in relationship with other parts, for good and ill!