Body Scan Exercise for Wellbeing and Interoceptive Awareness (10 mins)

Body Scan exercises are a simple way to help to develop #InnerBodyAwareness also known as interoception.
Interoception is something that we all experience through basic feelings such as hunger or when we notice our heart racing.
Building better inner body awareness can help us to regulate our attention and to acknowledge feelings of stress and over time feel more in control of our internal sensations. Ultimately, we can use it to helps us learn that our bodies are safe places. The process is gradual but it's simple to get started. Here's a straightforward four-step plan to try it out for yourself:
🔎 Step 1 - Notice:
The first step is simply about giving bodily sensations more time and attention than you may have done previously. Just bring your attention back to your body.
🧭 Step 2 - Explore:
This step is about exploring the features of your feelings, their location, intensity etc. It’s also a chance to review their significance. Maybe ask how do they relate to what’s going on in your life?
🧘 Step 3 - Influence:
This is where we start to influence our physiology. A chance for you to discover how to work towards creating more pleasant feelings in your body.
😌 Step 4 - Enjoy
This is all about integrating changes to how you sense interpret and influence bodily reactions into everyday life in ways that work for you. In this stage, your attention returns mostly to the outside world.
Find out more interoception and how we can use it to help us boost our mental and physical wellbeing: restoringbalance.life/inner-s...

[@leonstenutz6003]

Awesome! ¡Gracias! Thank you 😊

[@carolina6683]

This was great, thanks so much. I seem to have been practising interoception for ages and can't get past a very basic point. I hope doing this exercise will help me. Thanks again.

[@Interoception_InnerSense]

I hope it helps. :-)

[@heartshapedsys]

thanks, i’ve been practicing interception for many months now but i’ve been especially distracted lately and this video has helped me with it outside of therapy.

[@Interoception_InnerSense]

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[@mattjowett8837]

If you did a 15min softer and slower (quieter version without trains and geese) for sleep, with the full body scan and focused on sensations of relaxing and releasing tension I’d listen to it every night. All the sleep ones are full of faff about “feeling safe” and “imaging a cloud around your body” they’re not really mindful body scans and don’t use the language of perception and sensation they use too much imagine and creating language that doesn’t help switch the mind off and relax the body. Temperature, pressure, weight, movement, balance, tension that’s what I wanna hear not someone else’s imagery of some magical garden path or being told to “feel peace with every breath” what does that even mean; “feel the weight on your chest” or the “expanding of your lungs” or the “temperature of the air” as your breathe that’s something that makes sense to everyone.

[@lenoredavi6137]

You might like videos on feldenkrais practices. Basically that's what every class teaches, how to reconnect to your body and nervous system... and no geese or trains! 🙂

[@mattjowett8837]

legend thanks! I'll check it out@@lenoredavi6137

[@VS04]

There is an ad straight in the middle of this video. Was very much enjoying it before that.

[@williestreeter432]

I was just getting into it enjoying both the guide's voice and the duck quacking in the background when about 5 mins or so into the meditation, an interstitial advertisement started blaring some ridiculous non-sense, which I could only stop by opening my eyes, searching for the "skip add" button to appear so I could stop the offense 😠 . After that, the experience was eviscerated as I spent the remainder of the meditation trying to reorient my mind, struggling to get over this sudden agitation. Either the creator of this video or more likely Google/TH-cam needs to give the "harvesting money at every opportunity possible" a rest. 😞

[@Interoception_InnerSense]

Sorry to hear that an Ad appeared. We haven't purposefully chosen to include Ads...and will look at a way to turn them off in the settings. Thanks for the feedback.

[@Henri377]

Thank you for this! YT presented your channel and I'm pleased to have found you. Subscribed and liked 👍