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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..."