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Compassionate Body Scan

What do you need: Safe and quiet space, with a place to lay down or sit on in a comfortable position.
What can it help for: Promotes self-compassion, body awareness, presence, and grounding.
How much time do you need: Up to 5 minutes for short version; up to 10 minutes for long version.
How to do it? 
Take some deep breaths to sense into your centre, and wiggle your toes and fingers to notice the periphery of your body. Please close your eyes or have them in a softly focused gaze.
Bring your awareness to your legs and notice, how they feel. Let the weight of your legs soften and relax into gravity. Your legs have been supporting you in doing as well as possible. For what can you be especially thankful to your legs here and now?
Bring your awareness to your lower body and notice, how it feels. Let the weight of your lower body soften and relax into gravity. Your lower body has been supporting you in doing as well as possible. For what can you be especially thankful to your lower body here and now?
Bring your awareness to your upper body and notice, how it feels. Let the weight of the upper body soften and relax into gravity. Your upper body has been supporting you in doing as well as possible. For what can you be especially thankful to your upper body here and now?
Bring your awareness to your arms and notice, how they feel. Let the weight of your arms soften and relax into gravity. Your arms have been supporting you in doing as well as possible. For what can you be especially thankful for your arms here and now?
Bring your awareness to your neck and head and notice, how they feel. Let the weight of your neck and head soften and relax into gravity. Your neck and head have been supporting
you in doing as well as possible. For what can you be especially thankful to your neck and head here and now?
Take a moment to sense your whole body and if there are some specific places that would be good to scan and be thankful to, just do so.

 

Now you can reflect:
● What is different now?
● What was meaningful for you?
● What changes did you notice in your body?
● What did you enjoy the most?
● What is one kind thing you could do for yourself today?
● How can this experience support you?

8 Compassionate Body Scan (CBS) is a variation of a Burmese Vipassana meditation practice that involves
scanning the body for physical sensations. CBS help you feel and bring awareness to the myriad of sensations
that occur throughout your body.
Source: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/downloads/compassionate-body-scan/

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