Episode Summary
Dr. Eriksson guides you through a practice of scanning the body to cultivate awareness of sensation present there. This technique is an important first step – regulation – of building a resilience practice.
Show Notes
- Close your eyes, press your feet into the floor, notice your bottom in your seat, feel your lower back in the chair.
- Notice other sensations in the body and any tension in various places.
- Notice the movement of your chest.
- Starting at the top of the head and moving through each area of your body - paying attention to any sensations, energy, numbness, cold, hot, slowly moving your attention, noting the sensations.
- Notice and accept what is in your body.
- Bring attention back to the feeling of the body in your seat.
- Allow awareness to return to any sounds and the space around you.
- Open your eyes.
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