Up: [[Mind Awareness]]
Created: 2023-02-04
Updated: 2026-01-10
The idea is to talk to your body and ask it over and over, in a variety of ways, whatever body-based issue you are dealing with, such as, “How can I help you feel so good that you won’t want to eat for comfort?”
- Draw a vertical line down the centre of a page.
- Write a greeting at the top of the left column in your dominant hand.
- Switch the pen to your non-dominant hand and, in the right column, respond to the question. Don’t censor or judge. Just allow whatever to emerge.
- Go back and forth. When in dominant hand mode, use some variation of “What I can do to help you feel so good you won’t want to eat?”
- Keep offering to help. No judging or condemning. Stop when non-dominant hand (your creature-self) signals a willingness to co-operate.
> [!User] Martha Beck, *The 4 Day Win*, p.67
And a modification from Lucia Capacchione.
With your dominant hand the question, rather than an issue, might be exploratory. And it might be a series of questions rather than one question asked in a lot of different ways. For example: “What body part are you? How do you feel? Why do you feel that way? What can I do to help you?”
Answering is always with your non-dominant hand.