Peach Friedman
author, educator & trainer
intuitive fitness for women

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Now onto meatier subjects: the body. We all have one. So let’s take a minute to clothes our eyes and ‘get into’ the body. What does this mean? A million thoughts jump into my head:

- Sensing my skin, like, as in, truly feeling the sensation of skin covering organs and water and blood etc.
- Grounding my feet on the floor, letting my spine be long so that my head reaches upward
- Recognizing and ‘seeing’ my body for what it really is: the size and shape it really is, the way it really feels (maybe energized, maybe tired, maybe antsy, maybe soft, young, old, whatever)
- Breathing! Letting the breath wash through the body so that we remember we’re a functioning animal and not just a worker-bee getting through the day

We ignore our bodies all the time, right? Whether we’re at a desk-job, cleaning the house, meeting friends for coffee, we’re often living in our minds and ignoring the actual meat on our bones, the flesh that makes us human. It’s easy to become distracted by everything around us and forget that the body has a place here, too. I invite you to try something new and let yourself become distracted by the body, experimenting with what it might feel like to forget the mind. Wow! What a notion!

Ask yourself these questions:

1) Do you percieve your body differently when you ‘forget the mind’ and actually let yourself exist in your body?
2) Would you take better care of your body if you paid this sort of attention to it more often?
3) Do any new emotions or feelings come up when you try this exercise?

Now grab a big fat magic marker, or a stack of pens, or whatever is near by, and take ten minutes to jot-down any of the thoughts or feelings that are going through you. Try to maintain this attention to the body while you write–that can be tricky! See what happens.

Email me what you write! I’d love to read your reactions/explorations/responses to this kind of work.

Happy hot summer day, my friends! It’s scorching here in Sacramento.