Coaching practices for Feel the Body From Inside

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I live so far up in my head that my body might as well not be there
• I live so far up in my head that I only notice my body once it’s screaming
• When I think about this whole situation there’s something my body clearly registers
• I’m so cut off from my own body that I never notice I’m wound tight until I suddenly boil over or crash
• I’m stuck endlessly in my head

Practices that may help

1. The interoceptive body scan
   Move attention slowly through the body, sensing internal signals without changing them.
   Interoception, Explained
2. Reading the body as a self-knowledge instrument
   Treat physical sensations in the moment as data about what is actually happening inside you.
   Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice
3. Find the felt sense
   Locate the unclear, whole-body sense of a situation before you name it.
   Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
4. Practice noticing what your body is doing
   Build the skill of sensing internal signals — tension, heart rate, breath — without being hijacked by them.
   The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
5. Track body sensation (the felt sense)
   Follow raw physical sensation with curiosity — tingling, warmth, pressure — rather than the storyline.
   Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained
6. Pair the word with a body location
   Name the feeling and where you sense it: "tight in the chest", "heavy in the gut".
   Affect Labeling: Name It to Tame It
7. Locate the emotion in the body as well as naming it
   After naming an emotion on the Feeling Wheel, find where it lives in the body.
   The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
8. Use body boundary awareness to build felt safety
   Actively sensing your body surface — where you begin and end — creates a felt container for the ventral state.
   Ventral Vagal Activation: Accessing the Safe-and-Social State
9. The slow, systematic sweep
   Move through the body in a fixed, unhurried sequence — not skipping regions, not rushing past unpleasant ones.
   Body Scan Meditation, Made Practical
10. Read bodily signals as information
    Treat tension, energy dips, and gut feelings as data about needs and emotions, not just noise.
    Interoception, Explained

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