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Understanding the power of body scan meditation

Well Balanced

CHAPTER

The Importance of Mindfulness in Meditation

When I first sit in meditation, I kind of just sit and feel my body. Before I start noticing my breath or anything like that, I'll just sit and just feel the hell out of my body. But I used to not be able to do it at all. So because I went 20 years of my life without ever actually noticing what was happening in my body, I try to bring this up to my kids. And there's these fun playful ways of noticing your body like, oh, I pretend my hands are flowers and I open up the petals and then I close the petals.

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