Learn to Do a Body Scan Meditation

Healing past traumas and core wounds often must come from within. In this episode of Woman Worriers, host Elizabeth Cush guides you through a meditation to help you get in touch with your body.

Quotes:

“A lot of internal healing needs to come from the body.” — Elizabeth Cush

“If you’ve experienced trauma, especially sexual trauma, but any type of trauma, it’s really easy to disconnect from your body to cope.” — Elizabeth Cush

“Knowing how you’re feeling if you’re not tuned in to your body can be really hard. ” — Elizabeth Cush

“Bodywork is important but it can be very hard for trauma survivors. ” — Elizabeth Cush

“It also made me realize that my body was feeling things, noticing things, reacting to things all the time. ” — Elizabeth Cush

In recent episodes of the Woman Worriers podcast, guests Tami Simon and Thais Gibson have talked about attachment wounds and how they impact our lives and relationships. How do we heal those core wounds? Talk therapy and connecting with others can help, but some of the healing has to come from within the body. In this week’s podcast episode, host Elizabeth Cush, LGPC, a licensed professional therapist and founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., shares her journey of healing by getting in touch with her body and what it’s telling her—and how those messages have helped her manage anxiety. She will also guide you through a progressive body scan—a type of meditation that can help you start to tune into your body with kindness and compassion.

Listen and Learn:

The connection between being comfortable in your body and healing all your parts Different types of body work Why it might be hard to get touch with your body—especially if you’ve experienced trauma Why reconnecting with your body is an important part of healing What your body can teach you—and what it wants you to know The benefits you could experience by learning how to tune into your body Why trauma survivors might find bodywork difficult—and what to do about it Different ways that feelings show up in your body What a body scan meditation is and how to get started How the breath works with a body scan Where to focus your awareness during a body scan and what to do if it drifts Some of the sensations you might experience as you scan your body How to “return” from a body scan meditation How to use the knowledge you develop by doing body scans to move forward Where you can leave feedback on the body scan meditation Where to find more resources for meditation, including other guided meditations and a beginner’s guide to meditation

More:

> Other guided meditations from Progression Counseling

> Elizabeth’s “Let Go of Worry” meditation on InsightTimer

> Download Elizabeth’s free Mediation Guide for Worried Women

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> Progression Counseling