Bring awareness back in your body to stay focused in life
To stay focused requires minimal distraction in the mind. It is interesting how chaos could ensue around someone, yet they are able to maintain focus.
I wonder why that is?
A typical day in life for example, getting lost in all the intricacies of tasks, obligations, responsibilities.
How can someone stay focused with so much going on?
Being in tune with our senses of what is occurring in our body can help to maintain focus on the joy of who we are, what is happening in our perceptual world.
It is a form of appreciative acknowledgement. Accepting what is happening without resistance.
The awareness in our body connects us back to ourselves.
It is a grounding into the current moment.
Tune into the moment without the chaos diverting our attention somewhere other than what is happening right now.
The mind connects back with the body.
You take the time to feel your feet on the ground. You allow yourself to be open to observation as time was taken to notice.
To feel the sensations, the energy in your body.
Where are they being held, stored, restricted?
Taking small steps to incorporate awareness in your body throughout the day will provide advantages of focus in life.
You may notice yourself stepping out of fear based thinking, listening with greater intention, less frustration, overall appreciative awareness for right now.
3 Ways To Create Awareness In The Body
- Body Scan
- Movement
- Intentional Reflection/Expression
The body scan is a technique used to intentionally bring attention to individual parts of the body without judging them.
Movement when done mindfully helps to connect yourself back to your body to truly feel the various areas of the body in greater appreciation.
Intentional reflection offers a form of expression that creates a conscious awareness of the things that benefit the body in it’s functioning and movement while also identifying what obstructs it’s effectiveness.
Connecting back to the body is a choice that aids in the life healing process. It allows feelings and thoughts to surface that would otherwise be suppressed.
As the practice becomes stronger, so does the efficiency of how quickly someone can tune into their body.
After experimenting with the sensations in the body, bring them into awareness and feel a powerful experience of focused presence within you.
Connection to the body is a conscious awareness to the residing messages below the superficial functioning in life.