Coaching practices for Rational Explanation Bodily Sensation

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

• I’m stuck endlessly in my head
• I can analyze my feelings all day long, but it stays in my head and never actually moves through me
• I feel it in my body before my head catches up
• I live so far up in my head that I only notice my body once it’s screaming
• When something hurts inside, I get pulled straight into the story of why

Practices that may help

1. Track body sensation (the felt sense)
   Follow raw physical sensation with curiosity — tingling, warmth, pressure — rather than the storyline.
   Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Track the felt sense during pendulation
   As you move between resource and difficulty, notice how each sensation changes in quality — this tracking is the therapy.
   Pendulation, Made Practical
6. Generate alternative, benign explanations for the sensation
   List all other things that could plausibly cause the sensation you're experiencing.
   The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical
7. 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
8. Reappraise discomfort as a signal of engagement
   Interpreting physiological arousal as excitement rather than threat changes its effect on performance.
   Embracing Discomfort: Turning Resistance Into Growth
9. Regulate the body before you process the story
   When you are activated, settle the body first — insight cannot land on a flooded nervous system.
   The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
10. Find the felt sense
    Locate the unclear, whole-body sense of a situation before you name it.
    Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical

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