Reconnecting with your body

How can I reconnect with my body? Learn to access your emotions and improve your well-being through regular body scans and mindful practices.

Experiencing emotions and urges mainly in your head suggests that you are disconnected from your body. When you experience feelings of numbness, emptiness, or ‘dead inside,’ the disconnection is particularly strong. This is common in the cases of trauma or major depression.

You can get better at accessing your emotions if you practice tuning in to your body. Learning to do so has other benefits, too:

  • You will gain a sense of vitality,
  • experience more the positive feelings (joy, happiness, contentment, love…),
  • greater control over your actions by not getting hooked by thoughts,
  • better choices and decisions,
  • develop a better intuitive sense,
  • feeling safer in—not in tension with your body, and
  • stronger, deeper relationships.

Exercise: body scan

One of the best ways to reconnect with your body is to do regular body scans. These can be as short as thirty seconds or take as long as 30 minutes. Try to do them as often as you can, at least once a day, to make progress fastest.

You may find that some areas are particularly numb, or there are areas that you tend to avoid. Challenge yourself to gradually explore these areas, do not brush over them because there is ‘nothing to feel.’ When there is really nothing to feel you can create a feeling, either move, massage, or tense up a muscle in that area.

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