Handout from: Dare to BE LOVE Series: Love your Body: Practice Partnering with your Body

 

Dare to BE LOVE Series: Love your Body

Practice Partnering with your Body – being PRESENT in and with your body...

Examples of some more spiritually-related body practices:

BE With your body in its experience, give it your full attention, see what happens:

• Emotions are body communication, play with / honor them, communicate with your body overtly, make agreements with your body.

• Body disturbances are body communication, play with / honor them, communicate with your body overtly, make agreements with your body.

• Consciously notice Body/Spirit individuation – What parts of your experience are 
  

  physical experience? What aspects of your experience are spiritual experience?
• who is who around here? Honor and respect each other.
• make separations, what happens?
• interface to heal and repair, gain trust in your body/spirit relationship.

• Try journaling written communication back and forth between spirit and body… appreciation, questions, deepening relationship, perspective-sharing, etc – this is a very powerful practice – IMO:
• body to spirit,
• spirit to body

Examples of some more physically-related body practices:

BE With your body in its experience, give it your full attention, see what happens:

• Come to your Senses! Notice your your senses, one at a time - be with, heal them and let them come on-line and explode in your consciousness.

• Let go of thoughts and even of conscious energy-work for awhile and stay with the body and the body experience in exquisite detail. As you BE, and as you stop and go, pay attention to different channels of body experience, and see what happens.

• Notice your breath, play with it in varying rhythms. Breathe into and out of different parts of your system. What happens?

• Rub your skin, massage your muscles, feel for your bones, scratch your scalp...

• Exercise your experience of your Senses, being in Present Time:
• notice wind on your skin and how it touches your hair all over your body,
• play with aromatherapy,
• listen for the natural music where you are, the rhythms, the delicious sounds,
• take 10 minutes to eat 1-inch sized piece of in-season fruit – savor and notice,
• invest some time really seeing – without naming or judging – just being with what you see...

• Have fun! enjoy delicious life IN the Body:
• jump in water with abandon,
• wrestle and play with kids, or kids of any age,
• lay in the sun like a cat.
  
  

Wendy R Wolf - HealGrowShine.com