Sunrise, when I try to access my parts I realize that sometimes I am trying to hard. You have to reach a state of the mind that is also letting go. Try to empty your mind. Tell a story or fantasy sometimes works for me. Just make a list of to do for your life sometimes works. It is occupying it on another level yet allowing that other part go. Does this make sense. Looking inside at the point where the third eye is like in yoga helps too. This is also weird but for me, if I take a 1/4 of benedryl to help my anxiety levels or xanax then I usually can tap into them better too. Now I am DID and I have learned to reach a few. I know I have more but I am not ready for all of them just yet. I am trying to control the few I have that come forward and their behaviors are not my behaviors. I still though lose time. And I am trying to learn to control that. I am having some success.

Good luck.

Some people I know call theirs ikids. But I know some DID's that use that term too. I think it is important for each to use a term you are comfortable with, I haven't not really found one yet. One referred to everyone collective an my inner family and that I found comforting to imply a working team. I hope we are a working team. Some days I am not sure though.

Again, I hope my suggestions help.

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