Free Download - Body Awareness Meditation
Meditation is the practice of using breathwork to train your attention. When you practice meditation consistently, you will be more in tune with your thoughts and be able to separate them from your actions.
Why is body awareness important for eating disorder recovery?
Eating disorders thrive when you are disconnected from your body. Think about it, could you really deprive the body from it’s basic needs if you were fully feeling the effects of that deprivation? Perhaps you could for some time, but it would begin to be very hard. Eating disorder behaviors enable you to disconnect from your physical sensations. This could be hunger, fullness, thirst, pain, or emotions. Sometimes this is just a result of the eating disorder or it can be the way it functions for the individual.
Body connection and awareness is one very important element to eating disorder recovery. A guided body awareness meditation is one way you can begin to practice body connection in a way that feels more safe and/or less threatening.
Body Awareness Guided Meditation
This 7-minute guided meditation can help you decrease stress and anxiety. You can do this meditation seated or lying down, just make sure you are fully supported and comfortable.
Content warning: this guided meditation is based on guiding your awareness to different parts of your body and mentions body awareness and parts of the body to focus your attention.
This blog post and download were created by our intern Brittany Priller who is a certified yoga instructor and uses My Dreams by UNIVERSFIELD (-- https://freesound.org/s/720970/ -- License: Attribution 4.0).
Body Awareness Guided Meditation - Dallas Nutritional Counseling: This 7-minute guided meditation can help you decrease stress and anxiety. You can do this meditation seated or lying down, just make sure you are fully supported and comfortable.
Before using fitness devices and apps, ask yourself whether your motive is related to body dissatisfaction or health. Being self-aware of your feelings can help you recognize if using a health tracker is impacting you in a positive or negative way. If you notice that you are obsessed with tracking and it is interfering with your life, you may want to listen to your body instead. Your body has the ability to tell you what foods and movements feel right for you. When you implement mindful eating and movement, these parts of your life become much more flexible and enjoyable.