Developing Kinesthetic Awareness

From The Graham English Wiki

This exercise will help to ground you and make you aware of your feelings of balance, touch and body awareness. It will also help you develop a strong first person and connect with your values.

• Pause.
• Become aware of your body - without judgement.
• How would your body look if you were to freeze in that position? Would you look strange?
• Which parts of your body are tense?
• How is your sense of balance?
• Feel the connection between all the parts of your body.
• Which parts feel at ease and which parts feel uncomfortable?
• Feel where your body is touching other objects, such as a chair.
• Be aware of the touch of your clothes on your skin.
• What are you aware of with your sense of touch?
• Ask yourself:
  • What am I feeling right now?
  • What am I doing right now?
  • What am I thinking right now?
• Then ask:
  • What do I want right now?
• Now ask:
  • What are the values that I want to express?
  • What is important to me right now?
  • How does what I am doing help me achieve that?
  • What am I doing right now that prevents me from getting what I want?
• Finally, make a choice. Say to yourself, "I choose..."