12-Minute Body Scan To Build Trust With Your Body

This is a 12-minute guided body scan (ideal practice for morning or night), that can be listened to over and over again, multiple times a day to check in with your body, build trust with the messages your body sends you, and cultivate the relationship you have with your body. It includes a bit of breathing, a short relaxation across the body, and a body scan. It ends with a bit of gratitude for your body and all that it does for you ... This is a beautiful way to start your day!

A Body Scan is an excellent way to start to converse with your body and to begin to hear what is it calling for.

Transcript

A body scan is a practice that builds trust with our body, Intuition, And our experience and sensations within our body as messages to us. So wherever you are, You might be in a car or in a room, You might be standing or sitting or lying down, Just take a moment to close your eyes, Allow your attention and awareness to go inward. And simply notice your breath for a minute, Just bearing witness to your breath, Allowing your body to breathe you in whatever shape it wants to take. Just noticing, Is your breath higher in your body or is it lower? Is it deep or is it shallow? Can you feel your breath move through your body? Just witnessing each inhale and each exhale, Like a language of your soul. As we bring our awareness to our breath, We naturally invite it to deepen simply by noticing it and you might begin to allow your breath to expand just a little bit more and contract just a little bit more, Rising and falling in its own rhythm, Its own time and place. And simply inviting that same awareness to the top of your head, To the center of your forehead, The tip of the nose, All of the muscles behind the eyes, Both ears, The folds of the ears, The inner ears, And that space right between the ears. Bring your awareness to the muscle of the mind, Gently unfurling the muscle of the mind, Like a fist opening slowly, The right cheek and left cheek, Lips, Tip of the tongue, The roof of the mouth, The back of the tongue, The back of the throat, And the front of the throat, The clavicle, Your shoulders, Inviting your attention across your shoulders, The front of your shoulders, The back of your shoulders and the shoulder blades, And inviting your attention to wash down your arms, Over the upper arms, Elbows, Forearms, Wrists, All the tips of the fingers on both hands, Inviting your awareness to the center of the chest, Radiating out to the right side of the chest and the left side of the chest, The ribs, Your belly, Your lower belly, Your pelvic bowl, Down your spine, Your lower spine, And your tailbone, Inviting your attention and awareness to your hips, Swirling around the front of the hips all the way to the back of the hips and down your legs, Your thighs, Knees, Calves, Ankles, Feet, And the tips of your toes, Inviting your awareness like a waterfall across the whole of your body, Front, Back, Right, And left, Awareness washing through you and over you, And grounding your awareness back in your breath, Just becoming aware again of your breath as if your body is breathing you, Allowing it its own time and place, And simply witnessing it. And I invite you to find home within your body. Where in your body do you feel a sense of home, A sense of grounding and safety and security? Where in your body do you feel this? I invite you to ask your body what it needs in this moment. Maybe it's something simple, Or maybe it's something more complex. And if it is complex, I invite you to ask your body for something simple you can do today. Just being present with the sensations in your body, The words, Thoughts, And images that pop up, The feelings. And might you send a bit of gratitude back to your body. Might you silently say thank you to your body. Thank you. Thank you. If you feel so called, You might want to put a hand over your heart, Or a hand on your belly. Sending love and gratitude back to this beautiful body of yours, This unique body of yours with its own story to tell, With its own mode of communication with you. Thank you. And when you're ready, You can release your hands. You might want to wiggle your fingers or toes. You might want to flutter your eyes open, Gently rocking from side to side. Or if you're standing, You might want to shake your body out a little bit. Roll your head. Take a nice deep breath, Inhaling through your nose, Opening your mouth and sighing out. And I hope you have a beautiful day. Thank you so much for joining me. And I will see you next time, My friends. My name is Jocelyn. Namaste.