Take a look inside and you’ll find a varied landscape of sensations, such as hunger, emotions, breath, and physical pain. Your body sends you signals all day long to help you reach homeostasis, or a state of balance. But we often discount or ignore these cues. As a baby you were naturally tuned in to your body. But over time you likely learned to focus more on your external world. As adults we become increasingly detached from our body:
Do you squelch your satiety signals with dieting or overeating?
Do you mask your tiredness with caffeine? Do you quiet your aches and pains with substances?
Do you spend so much time in your head that you forget you have anything below the neck?
It’s not helpful to spend every minute focused on your body, but if you repeatedly cut yourself off from your body, you miss out on its rich information. And sometimes your attempts to control your body’s cues can backfire.
Today you’re going to bring awareness to your body’s inner sensations, increasing what is called embodiment.
Daily Writing: Tuning In Are you connected to your body, or do you spend most of your time living in your head? How do you mask or ignore your body’s inner signals? Are there negative consequences when you disconnect from your body?
Now, turn your attention inward. Notice your level of hunger, physical aches and pains, tension, and fatigue. Write about these sensations. What is your body asking for right now?
Todays Practice:
Set your alarm for 3 times today as a reminder to check in with your body and ask yourself, “what is happening in my body?”
Or,
Use appetite awareness training to check in with your hunger and fullness each time you eat today. Before eating make note of how hungry you are on a scale of 0 (very hungry) to 7 (very full). Rate your appetite again after eating.
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