Diving Into Body:
Listening to my Body Boost Bonus Meditation as I write this post, I am amazed again at how quickly bringing focus to my body can make me feel better. My body feels warm and grounded and stable and gentle – it’s a lovely antidote to the scattered, frenetic and frantic feeling of my mental energy. How beautiful just to dive into the depths of body from wherever I am, like jumping into a body of water that is exactly the right temperature to soothe and refresh.
Just breathing and smiling is a really quick way of returning to my body. Just to feel myself breathing can pull me down out of the clouds and help me come back to earth. Here, in my body, in the present moment, there is a power that helps me to respond to the truth of what is really happening NOW. This can help me to feel calmer, slower, more in control. And this can help me to manage my energy more easily so I can feel and function better.
As someone who has a tendency to disappear into over-thinking and worrying, I love being reminded and guided back into my body where I feel at home. There is comfort and knowing and wisdom in my body. My body is not seduced by the strategies of my intellect. My body knows that everything is alright. And it helps me to feel alright. Beautiful, even.
What does it mean to be “in my body?” It’s a shift in where I locate myself – it feels like breathing and feeling myself from the inside out. When I locate myself in my thinking, I disappear outside of myself as I become my thoughts. My dance teacher used to say that you never see an animal being awkward in their body because they don’t think about themselves, they just be themselves. This is true for me as well – when I go into over-thinking, my body becomes a vehicle to express my thoughts through tension, holding or disconnection. When I come back into the feeling of my body, I can be myself more fully and enjoy the simplicity, ease and pleasure of just being me.
Being Body. It’s delicious. I hope you enjoy diving in.
— Fliss
Fliss Wheeler, Special Guest Meditation Guide for May 2017
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