Mindfulness with Nathanael ROUX
Body scan
Goal : Being aware of our body, of the bodily sensations we perceive in
each part of it
Help:
- Dichotomy
systematic scan from toes to head
Advice:
- For each body
part that is scanned, we welcome the bodily sensation that arise from it
without trying to
influence / change / modify it
- No sensation is
also OK
- Each time we lose
contact
- No complaint,
no judgment
Benefit : develop our
mindfulness capability
Practical exercise: contact our body sensations several times per day,
perceive our bodily sensations when we pay attention to them
Commentary
Our mind is over
developed in regard to our body knowledge and link.
It’s vital to reactivate our link to our body, to pay attention to it
on a regular basis.
In addition, our body has its own intelligence and if « listen » to it,
the information we get could be very useful to better understand the
word we live in (inside and outside word).
When mind and body disagree about a decision, it’s sometimes wise to
listen to our body advice (gut feeling).
Formal body scan should be back-up with informal practice:
- Do an internal
body weather forecast on a regular basis
- How do I feel
in my body today and just now?
- What are the
bodily sensations I perceive?
- Are some parts
of my body want to say something to me?
- Be careful,
the goal is to be aware of what is here just now, without any judgment, without wanting to change it
- If you do the
exercise a little bit later, the results could be completely different
- Also, silence
sometimes is more relevant than speech…
- Like for
breathing, contact our body and sensations several times a day to
really live in our body (not only in our mind).