Up: [[Body Awareness]] Created: 2025-12-30 There are three areas of the body where it’s most typical to find feelings and their corresponding sensations. #### Head, Neck, Shoulders Look for raised shoulders, clenched jaws, dizziness, throbbing temples, pressure behind your eyes, shooting pains along side of head, dull ache in forehead, sore tongue, burning between shoulder blades, lump of happiness or sadness in throat …. #### Chest Look for pressure on the chest, out of control excitement, tight band of tension that makes it hard to breathe, sharp pains, shallow breathing, racing pulse, heart palpitations. #### Belly Look for butterflies or fists of tension in the stomach, tight bands across lower pelvic region, unbounded energy, sharp pains, explosive pressure, empty holes right around the belly button, sinking sensations, queasiness. > [!user] Mary O’Malley in *The Gift of Our Compulsions* > chapter 13