Body Awareness

Focusing on bodily sensations: where in the body does this feeling live? What color, temperature, shape is it? Not analysis of "why", but direct sensing. The body holds wisdom the mind does not see: cold means alienation, heaviness — pressure, burning — anger. Often focusing on the body lets energy that was blocked move.

Step-by-step guide

1. Identify the emotion or problem: "You are speaking about fear"
2. Bring attention into the body: "Where in the body do you notice the fear?"
3. Clarify: "Is it heavy? Hot? Cold? What color?"
4. Questions about movement: "Does it want to move? In which direction?"
5. Dialogue: "If this fear in your throat could speak, what would it say?"
6. Integration: "What now, after you have heard it?"

When to use

• Psychosomatic symptoms: headache, spasms, "a lump in the throat"
• Implicit emotions: "I am not angry, but." — where in the body is the energy?
• Congruence is checked through the body: the words diverge from the posture
• Frozenness in trauma: meeting the bodily numbness
• The client wants a creative impulse: "What does my body want to express?"

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