Module 16: Episode 4 - Talking to a body part of your choice
Embodied Mindfulness Meditation
Module 16: Episode 4 - Talking to a body part of your choice
Dina Asher Kusnir
This meditation invites us to develop an intimate, compassionate relationship with our physical body by listening to individual body parts with gratitude, curiosity, and loving attention.
You are invited to choose a body part that needs attention, gently sensing its location, shape, and sensations. Then begin an inner conversation, a friendly loving conversation: praising and honoring this part, talking with it in deep appreciation for the work and effort it offers to your life.
When you feel discomfort, tension, pain, meet them with patience and kindness it is part of you that calling attention so it can be heard.
Thoughts feelings, sensations arise from this part of your body. With deep listening you bring loving kindness to this pain. It might soften or it might need patience and repeating practice.
If you do not know how to talk to this part, here are four phrases you can use as a foundation for this practice. It is a body prayer and healing.
I'm sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.
These phrases offer a way to acknowledge neglected or painful parts of ourselves, soften our relationship with the body, and cultivate gratitude for all that it does for us.
Healing begins when we stop fighting our bodies and start listening to them with love.
With love and appreciation for your practice, Dina
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