Body awareness and being more mindful of your body are important skills for any man or woman who is seeking a more physical connection with sensation and touch. The more aware you can be of your body, the greater acceptance you have of it, and the extra appreciation you show it will go a long way towards quietening your mind and reviving your senses so that you will be able to feel more. This is not purely limited to sensual or sexual delights, but all energy and vibrations of life that may be experienced from being in a physical body.
The Importance of Body Awareness and Mindfulness
Your self-assurance is something that develops as you learn to stand and move from a more grounded position, with a firm feeling of being focused and centred. You will not be easily thrown off balance or unsettled. You feel a new feeling of totality when your mind and body work together in unison. When your energy flows more easily through your body, you feel more optimistic and vibrant.
The more attuned you are to your body, the more you understand who you are and what you feel since your sense of self is inextricably intertwined with your knowledge of your body.
You can interact more openly and honestly with your intimate partner, even family and friends if you reconnect with your inner self and learn not to suppress your feelings and emotions. You may not always choose to communicate your sentiments, but if you are aware of how you feel as well as how you think, you may select when it is acceptable to communicate how you feel.
How Body Awareness, Being Mindful, And Your Health Are Related
The human body is super intelligent. If only we could learn to interpret its language, we could use what it tells us to get healthy, cure diseases before they get started, and even learn how to relax and be in sync with ourselves. Many of us are only compelled to pay attention, to reconnect with that area of our bodies that have previously been outside our attention span, when we are in pain when disease or injury impacts a part of our body and it disrupts our daily life.
Many diseases and illnesses are caused by an absence of a relationship with our body and feelings.
If we are not in tune with ourselves, if we are oblivious to the messages our bodies send, we run the risk of allowing stress and tension to build up to levels we cannot endure. Sickness and injury are frequently the only ways we can force ourselves to ever relax or slow down.
Similarly, if we repress emotions such as anger, sadness or love indefinitely or are ignorant that we have them, the anxiety and stress this produces can ultimately impact us physically, resulting in a variety of illnesses, both slight and severe.
You can learn to take greater accountability for your wellbeing if you are more conscious of and connected to your body. You might start to listen when your body talks to you, to initiate a conversation with it, to heed its cautions and to honour its needs. With time, and through being aware and mindful of your body, you will be able to determine which sorts of foods are best for you and your body, as well as which types of people or situations cause you stress, tension, and unease.
How To Increase Body Awareness
Never has there been such a wide interest in individual health and fitness, including diet and nutrition, stress management, exercise, wellness, and even alternative therapies and complementary medicines. However, many forms of exercise offer nothing to improve body awareness and body consciousness, and some may even help to increase the gap between body and mind.
A good example of this is any competitive sport that focuses on winning because there is an element of tension and pressure, decreasing its usefulness as a method of releasing the body from its own constraints. So whilst the sport might be beneficial for physical fitness and, say, cardiovascular health, it offers little when it comes to improving body awareness and freeing the body. Also, the feeling and sense life of in the body is generally disregarded in the types of exercises done to help you look good rather than feel good.
Exercises and Practices for Developing Body Awareness
Tantric practices, even mindfulness exercises, have maintained their influence for so long specifically because of their tried and tested value in allowing you to sense more of your body. Unlike some other physical disciplines, these incorporate and integrate body, mind, and soul. Practices such as Tantra, Taoism, mindfulness, Reiki, and yoga, when exercised regularly, may assist you in making a deeper connection with yourself, dissolve stress and tension, and increase your capacity for embracing touch, sensation, and feeling.
These are by no means the sole methods for increasing body awareness. If you grasp the concepts of body awareness, body connection, appreciation, and mindfulness, many popular sports, even exercise classes, can offer additional help with you becoming in greater touch with your body.
Nobody can teach you about your body or give you all the body awareness you need. Connecting with your feelings, accepting what comes through, and allowing yourself to be more sensitive is a process that each of us must eventually accomplish for ourselves at our own speed and in our own time when we are ready.
However, by experiencing how different life feels when you reconnect with the dormant aspects of yourself, you might decide to progressively work towards enjoying this sense of energy, vitality, and oneness more of the time, increasing what you have learned into your everyday life.
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