Embodied Awareness Practice For Connecting To Your Wisdom

This gentle 4-minute centering practice invites you to simply be with yourself as you are in this moment. You'll be guided through a body scan that helps you tune into the sensations present in your body with curiosity. The practice guides you to listen to what your body is asking for: perhaps a small movement, a stretch, a particular way of breathing, or some other form of care. This is a conversation with your body, letting it guide you toward whatever it needs right now. Use this practice whenever you want to reconnect with your body's wisdom and offer yourself some gentle, responsive care.

Music: Calm Energy Meditation 888hz peaceful by Universe_Bella

Transcript

This is a very simple,

Centering and presencing exercise which asks nothing more than you than to simply be with yourself as you are in this moment.

Letting yourself come into a comfortable position,

Perhaps you feel like sitting down,

Standing up or even lying down,

Whatever you feel called to do for this next few minutes.

Letting yourself settle into your posture and allowing your awareness to turn inwards by taking a few nice long deep breaths into the belly.

With a special focus on letting the exhalation be nice and long and slow.

Letting the breath return to normal and simply starting to scan your body,

Taking your awareness to the crown of your head,

Slowly moving your awareness down through the head,

The face and continuing all the way down through your body.

As you move your awareness through the body,

Simply becoming aware of any sensations that are present for you.

There's no need to label them as good or bad or narrate them in any way,

Just simply becoming curious about how it feels in the body.

Noticing any tingling,

Any tightness,

Warmth or cold,

Anything at all that you come across simply noting it with curiosity.

Continuing until you've scanned your entire body from the crown of the head down to the tips of the toes.

As you finish that scan,

Just becoming aware of any of those things that you noticed in the body that might be particularly drawing your attention.

And simply allowing your awareness to rest in that place in the body and noticing what's happening there in terms of sensations or anything else that you notice.

And if you allow this sensation to be a source of information,

What might it be telling you in terms of a small little self-care project that you could offer yourself right now?

Perhaps some type of movement,

Massage,

Type of breathing,

A stretch,

Anything that this part of the body is signalling to you it would find nourishing right now.

Just go ahead and do whatever it is that has come to you.

Whenever you notice your attention is wandering that very normal,

Just gently inviting it back into this embodied experience of what's happening inside you right now.

And just continuing to move in whatever way the body is calling you to move it.

There's no performance of any sort here,

We're simply responding to the information we receive from our body.

Let your body choose the speed that you move,

The amount of space you take up,

Whatever it is that you're doing.

And whenever you feel finished,

Simply coming back to a still place,

Taking a few centering breaths,

And when you feel ready,

Returning to your day.