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The Body Scan
Online · Anywhere quiet
Attention travelling slowly from feet to head
HostAway
Duration10 min
You needNothing
Vipassana tradition, foundation of modern mindfulness
Move your attention slowly through the body, feet to head, noticing whatever is there without changing it. The oldest trick in contemplative practice, and still one of the most reliable ways home.
How to do it
- 1Sit or lie comfortably
- 2Bring attention to the feet, just noticing
- 3Move slowly upward, part by part
- 4Finish resting attention on the whole body at once
An experience, not a claim. Offered as a way to take a break. Away makes no health claim for it.
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