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Your body
You cannot think your way out of a body that is braced. This area starts there: the breath, the ground under you, moving, eating, resting, and the small physical things that change how the rest of the day lands.
Narrowed down
3 practicesTheme · Feeling from the inside
How long you have · A minute
Approach
When · Any ordinary day
Stand on one leg for a few breaths. Your body has to work to keep you upright, and that work is loud enough to feel on a day when nothing else registers.
Balance pulls in the joints, the inner ear and the muscles all at once, so it gives a far stronger signal than sitting still and hoping to notice…
Before inviting anyone to turn attention to their body, ask first. How do you feel about trying this now, and would you like to?
The asking is part of the practice, not the preamble to it. Someone whose body was once not theirs to control needs the choice handed back in small…
A long body practice is a teaching version. In real life, take one small piece: just the feet, just the hands, just a minute of noticing.
Long stretches of inward attention can tip into flooding or into drifting off, and neither leaves you better than you started. A minute done often…