Often, we don’t appreciate our bodies because we don’t feel them.
- We have ideas about the body, but we don’t actually sense our bodies.
- If we can’t sense the body, we can’t belong to it.
We tend to think of the mind and the brain as separate from the body, But the brain is part of the body?
- The mind and body are not separate. Those are just words we use to describe our experience of thoughts and emotions versus the physicality of life.
In the term “embodied awareness,” “Embodied” denotes that mind and body are fundamentally not separate.
- “Awareness” is the capacity to know both physical and mental/emotional experiences.
Over time, learn to connect with a more natural embodied awareness of the felt sense that is available in any moment.
- Be more grounded, less swept away by thinking, and less likely to judge yourself and your body so harshly.
- Grow more able to connect to nonverbal, bodily aspects of your experience which, research has shown, enables deeper changes to take hold.
Many people can benefit from this shift in orientation. You can use embodied awareness to ground yourself throughout your day
- In modern culture, it’s not uncommon to be disconnected from this felt sense of the body.
- For many people, it can be difficult to know the difference between feeling bodily sensations and simply thinking “about” the body.
Re-source: Reconnect
re-establish a bond of communication or emotion
Can you feel your body right now?
- What sensations do you feel? Where? How do they feel?
- Are they vibrating, pulsing, tingling?
See if you can allow yourself to have a felt sense of the body. Not needing to grasp or reject anything, just sensing.
- Feel your feet on the floor or your butt in the seat.
- Do you sense the contact, the pressure?
Now, what about the breath? Do you sense it?
- Where? The nostrils, the belly?
- Do you feel the sensations of breathing?
- The air flowing in and out of the nostrils, the belly rising and falling?
- Is the breath cool or warm, smooth or rough, long or short?
- Not changing anything, simply rest in the breath.
- Stay with this for a moment.
How does connecting with the body in this way make you feel overall?
craving and resource from “Ten Percent Happier” – “Coming to Love Your Body” by Sebene Selassie
