Guided Somatic Meditation to Strengthen Your Mind-Body Connection
The Importance of The Mind-Body Connection
Most of us spend most of our time lost in our thoughts, disconnected from our hearts, and stuffing our true feelings. We’ve been trained to ignore our bodies, repress our natural emotional responses, and deny our gut feelings.
This is particularly true for those of us who have experienced trauma. When we experience trauma (big or small), our body remembers everything, while our mind goes to work trying to protect us from our own overwhelming trauma responses. This creates a rift between the conscious stories of our mind and the lived experience of our body.
It feels normal to live in our heads rather than in our bodies, but we don’t realize how much it costs us.
When we're disconnected from the sensations of our body, we're cut off from the incredible wisdom of our bodies, emotions, and intuition.
It becomes normal to feel anxious, angry, or stressed and not really know why. We find ourselves on a confusing roller coaster of uncomfortable physical and emotional symptoms. We doubt ourselves and lack a clear sense of direction.
But, learning to strengthen our mind-body connection has a host of benefits.
For one thing, learning to tune in to the feelings in our bodies is a regulating practice. It has been shown that increasing your interoceptive awareness (which means increasing your capacity to notice your internal sensations) down-regulates your survival brain and tones your vagus nerve. This helps us decrease our feelings of stress and anxiety.
Plus, the greater your awareness of your physical sensations, the more connected you are to yourself as a whole.
Connecting with your body allows you to dive deeper into your internal world and gain a better understanding of your real and natural reactions to life. This can help you open to greater healing and authenticity as you learn to connect with and acknowledge information that may not always be available to your conscious mind. There’s so much wisdom held within the implicit knowledge of our bodies about who we authentically are and how we authentically feel. As we connect more and more with these deeper parts of our consciousness, we begin to have a fuller sense of ourselves, our needs, and desires.
So in today’s guided somatic meditation to strengthen your mind-body connection, we’re going to practice turning our awareness inwards and increasing our interoceptive awareness.
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Episode timing:
00:00 - The Importance of The Mind-Body Connection
05:10 - Guided Somatic Meditation to Strengthen Your Mind-Body Connection
23:14 - Conclusion
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