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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.

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Touch and bodywork Under stress Clear all

Theme · Touch and bodywork

Grounding and settling 30 Your nervous system 24 Touch and bodywork 22 Breathing 10 Feeling from the inside 9 Moving your body 8 Food, caffeine and fuel 5 Posture and how you carry yourself 4 Rest and pacing 1

How long you have

A minute 5 Five minutes 17

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 38 Under stress 22 Coming and going 4 In a change 1

Ordinary harmless sensation competes with pain on its way up. Rubbing, squeezing or stroking near a sore place gives the nerves plenty of other traffic to carry.

This is why everybody rubs a banged elbow without being taught to. The useful part is that you can do it deliberately: firm strokes along the limb, a…

Five minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 16:69

Squeeze slowly down one arm with the opposite hand, then the other, and work over whatever muscles you can reach. No table, no appointment, nobody else in the room.

Firm and rhythmic beats fiddly. Give the forearms, upper arms, shoulders and thighs a proper squeeze and release, a few seconds each. Doing it…

Five minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 19:24