Living Library · Look at yourself

Where do you
feel it?

Every feeling lives somewhere in the body. Choose one, and mark where you notice it.

Think of a moment when you felt it. Then tap the body: once where the sensation is stronger, twice where it is weaker or quieter, a third time to clear.

Compare with researchClear
What research found

These are averages from many people. Your own map may look different, and that difference is worth noticing too.

Nummenmaa, Glerean, Hari & Hietanen (2014). Bodily maps of emotions. PNAS 111(2), 646–651.

Questions to carry

Listening lower.

  1. Which feeling was easiest to find in your body? Which was hardest?
  2. Is there a place in you that rarely seems to feel anything?
  3. What does your body do just before you say “I’m fine”?
A practice

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