What My Body Is Still Carrying: Somatic Body Scan | 10 Min

Meditations for Inner Peace · 1 ноября 2026 г. · 10 мин

A body keeps its own record of a year. Not in words, but in the places it tightens, the places it braces, the places that never quite let go. By November, a lot of that is still sitting in your shoulders, your jaw, your lower back, long after the moments that put it there have passed. This 10-minute somatic body scan is a gentle inventory. Rather than trying to fix or release anything straight away, you'll move slowly from the top of your head to your feet, noticing kindly what's still being held and where your attention keeps returning. From there, a short visualisation takes you to a quiet garden in the early morning, where you set down a bag you didn't realise you'd been carrying and meet a lighter version of yourself, someone who learned to ask whether each tension still needed to be held. Five simple affirmations close the practice. A good place to start if the year is catching up with you, or if you want to close it out with more awareness of what you're bringing into the next one. Next time you notice your shoulders creeping toward your ears, this is ten minutes away.