Listening to your body

If you pay attention you will notice the body talking. All of us feel physical sensations in tandem with our emotions, this is a neurobiological reality. The body can be very 'loud' in what it tells us, when we are distressed.
The majority of my clients talk to me about the anxiety and stress they experience, and wish to have greater control over these emotions. I help them to explore how anxiety and stress feel, physically. When we know how our body speaks to us, where it starts, what these sensations are, and how they develop as the emotion rises and falls, we can gain options in intervening.
Print this body outline and write in the sensations you feel during an emotion, or simply use your mind's eye to scan and assess. This learning will help you to prevent, prepare for, and indeed manage emotions. My previous posts about breathwork can be part of your management. My next post will address yet other techniques.