Fostering Awareness and Insight

We all need time to slow down and take stock, and in those times, if we give attention to how we feel at a bodily level, we might notice tiredness, numbness, pain or tension as our body holds and processes our experience of life below the everyday level of consciousness. Paying attention to these cues can tell us when we need to slow down, take stock and invest in caring for ourselves.

Choosing to listen to our body allows the wisdom of the body to become accessible, and to be symbolised through imagery, posture, gesture and movement. In this way, cultivating embodied awareness may generate helpful insight and allow new meaning and possibility to emerge.

In this way, embodied prayer can:

Resource the ongoing process of integrating life and faith

Enable creative engagement with our faith tradition

Open up new avenues of exploration

Contribute to personal discernment

Enrich our experience of meditation

Increase self-awareness