Come Back To Your Body When You Feel Numb

This gentle somatic meditation invites you to shift your focus away from thinking and into direct sensory experience. By tuning into one specific sensation in your body, you’ll begin to dissolve mental chatter and return to a state of presence. It’s a simple yet powerful way to reconnect with your body when you feel caught in overthinking or emotional noise.

This practice helps soften the separation between you and what you feel, bringing you back into real-time awareness.

Transcript

Put yourself in a comfortable position.

It can be seated,

Standing or lying down.

Take a nice deep breath in through your nose and out through the mouth through pursed lips.

And I invite you to turn your attention to what you sense or feel right now in your body below your collarbones.

Maybe you notice the gentle pressure of the clothes that you're wearing.

Maybe you notice the warmth of your body against what you're sat or lying on or stood on.

Or perhaps you notice the subtle rhythm of your heartbeat.

Or maybe you notice something else entirely.

Search your experience and find just one bodily sensation.

Now close your eyes and let that sensation draw you down into your body.

Travel to the place where it's most vivid and vibrant.

Surround it with your attention.

And what do you notice?

Is there a tightness,

A lightness,

A tingling,

A stillness?

Whatever it is and whatever's there,

Be curious and explore it.

Allow your attention to soften and dissolve into the sensation.

Your mind is now saturating the feeling like water soaking into a sponge.

In this moment,

You may lose track of the observer.

Perhaps there's no longer a you separate from the sensation.

Maybe there's just pure beingness.

When you drop in in this way,

The worries and thoughts that usually occupy your mind fade away and you become less entangled in your mental chatter.

This kind of practice helps you awaken as if from a dream.

In the dream,

You believed your thoughts about yourself.

The thoughts you believed to be true are seen for what they are,

Mere thoughts.

Simply allow yourself to stay in this place of simply observing the sensations in your body,

Watching themselves as they move through your body.

Slowly morph and change and shift without the need to control or change.

Just simply being with what is.

When you're ready to complete this practice,

You can do so by taking three deeper,

More intentional breaths.

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