The body is the temple of life and the body is the appearance of the soul.
In my opinion, establishing contact with the body means staying with your body, keeping a keen awareness of the various reactions of the body, and being able to have self-awareness, self-judgment and self-reaction to these reactions.
Why do you want to establish contact with your body? I give three reasons.
1. The body is an important part of the self. What we call self can be divided into three parts: body, emotion and thinking. The body is the most important part of the three. Emotion is a summary of physical experience, while thinking is only a mirror image of the body. The body is connected with the subconscious and is the part under the real iceberg.
2. Body is the key to nonviolent communication. Non-violent communication divides our language patterns into Shiba Inu and Giraffe, and illegal circulation advocates the latter, while most of us are the former in life, that is, after being stimulated by foreign countries, they are immediately kidnapped by emotions and ideas and take harmful actions directly. Giraffe mode is to realize these emotions and thoughts, see the inner needs through the medium of body, and then take action to truly meet these needs.
3. Health is the capital of revolution. This sentence is not only talking about the importance of physical health, but also going further, I want to say that physical reaction is the messenger of health. Both Chinese medicine and western medicine pay special attention to patients' subjective feelings. This is because there is something inside, and it must be done outside. Most diseases have corresponding physical reactions. If we can establish contact with the body and maintain this keen perception of the body, we can receive the signals transmitted by the body in time, so as to take action to maintain health as soon as possible. In this sense, the body is the capital of revolution, and a keen physical response is the capital to ensure health.
Another point is that keen body consciousness is not only the capital of health management, but also can help us in sports competitions and artistic creation, which is the function of body and mind integration.
If you are interested in the above three reasons, I recommend further reading. 1 Reason reference: the body knows the answer, body psychology. Refer to the second reason: non-violent communication between food and body, and the power of empathy. Refer to the third reason: the diagnosis of Geiger's disease and the miracle of body and mind integration.
Finally, back to the topic, talk about how to connect with the body.
There are three steps in this process, which is also part of our efforts.
Step 1 is to cultivate the sensitivity of the body. What the body conveys to us is not only pain, temperature and touch, but also deep proprioception and autonomic nerve feeling. Unfortunately, many people are very insensitive to physical feelings such as acid, pain, bloating, numbness, itching, wood, cold, heat, dryness, wetness, vibration, position and spatial changes.
Want to increase the sensitivity of the body. The first thing is to get rid of physical diseases first. Needless to say. These receptors in the body can be activated by stretching or self-massage. Finally, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. If qi and blood are insufficient, it will become dull, so it needs qi and blood to make up.
The second step is to practice inner sensitivity. Sometimes it's not that our bodies are dull, but that our hearts become numb. Your body sends a signal, but your heart can't receive it. This phenomenon of separation of body and mind is very common. Through the study the day after tomorrow, we arm our brains, but let us be born with inner instinct. Fall.
I told an example before. In junior high school, the conditions at home were not good and the clothes were not warm enough. I always feel cold, especially my hands. At that time, I said to myself, be cold, it is my hand that is cold, not me. This is a self-defense mechanism of mine. I was very proud at that time, but it caused the separation of body and mind. In the back. Spent a lot of money to make up for it.
Inner sensitivity needs practice, which is what we often call mindfulness. There are many exercises about mindfulness meditation. I recommend the simplest and most practical body scan, as well as walking meditation.
The third step is to learn the sensitivity of language. Because there are still many people who have many feelings, but there is no suitable language to express them. Language is the carrier of thoughts, but in turn it will limit our thoughts. That is to say, if there is no suitable language to express our feelings, then this part of our feelings will not be realized at all. For example, if you don't have the word become angry from embarrassment, then you can't express your feelings about this tortuous change. Regarding the feelings of the body, the vocabulary in the English world is much more delicate and rich than that in our Chinese world, which can help us express many subtle feelings and establish more detailed and close ties with the body.
The sensitivity of language needs to be studied In this part, we can usually accumulate some words about physical feelings. In this way, when we are aware of the body, we can capture every subtle feeling of the body well.
To sum up, by cultivating physical sensitivity, practicing inner sensitivity and learning language sensitivity, we can establish good contact with the body. With the true self, with the full-fledged self, and with the all-encompassing self, at this time, the heart is full of stability, peace and wisdom.