If asked "point to where you are", most of us would point to our temples - we're in our heads most of the time. Or more accurately, we're off in future plans or anxieties, or off in past embellished memories or regrets - in other words, we're rarely here, in our bodies, in real time.
Our own illness brings our attention back, at least for a time, to reality - the fact that we have a body - that we live as a physical entity.
We depend on body-awareness (the original, direct biofeedback) to manage not just our physical, but total health - we are after all one indivisible package. We also need to develop body-awareness, as part of self-awareness, to effectively interact with the external environment.
Learning
to self-manage diabetes involves "a sequential process integrally related
to awareness of and attention to an understanding and interpretation of one’s
body … ‘body listening’ … ‘tuning into my body’ "
Price MJ. “Exploration of body listening: health and physical self-awareness in chronic
illness.” ANS Adv Nurs Sci 1993; 15(4): 37-52.
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