Up: [[Body Awareness]] Created: 2025-12-30 Naming your physical sensations, what you are feeling, allows you to regulate those feelings and dial down the stress response. However, it is NOT necessary or advisable to try to figure out why the feeling is there and what to do about it. Your feelings don’t need to be justified or controlled, just experienced. In *Narrative Healing* Lisa Weinert suggests pretending putting a microphone to each body part and inviting them to say whatever they want. Another suggestion from Weinert is to focus in on the feeling/sensation, be curious about what it feels like: Does it have a shape or texture? What are any defining features? Stay with it for about five breaths and then move on to the next feeling/sensation.