\u2018'A body scan is,' says Hanneli in this session, 'a personal laboratory.'\u2019<\/p>\r\n
An opportunity, by listening to the body's space and the rhythm of breathing, to move towards what is called here a 'meeting between presence, breathing and the body'.<\/p>\r\n
In this lying body scan \u2013 which can also be performed sitting or standing \u2013 we are led from the feet and up through the large muscle groups towards a holistic experience of the body.<\/p>\r\n
The movement of attention is constantly accompanied by the breath. Along the way, we are given images that can support a consciousness that brings together bodily presence, self-care and breathing. 'Imagine that the soles of your feet are breathing,' says Hanneli. 'That your knees are absorbing nourishment and vitality from the breath.'\u2018<\/p>\r\n
The body scan is the initial and basic form of mindfulness training in the research-based eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program.<\/p>\r\n
Although body scanning is a possible path to well-being, it is not always an easy path. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the architect of MBSR, has said about his own introduction to body scanning:<\/p>\r\n
\u201cOne of the people who inspired me to develop the MBSR version of body scan, John Hover (1920-2008) had been a space engineer before becoming a meditation teacher. He taught in a tradition founded by the Burmese U Ba Khin, who is considered one of the 20th century\u2019s greatest specialists in <\/em>insight,<\/em>witness meditation (SN Goenka was another of his students).<\/p>\r\n I met John Hover at a retreat in 1973.<\/em><\/p>\r\n We had made a promise not to move for hours at a time, and for me it was stretching my patience to the extreme. It brought me face to face with levels of pain of an intensity I had never experienced before \u2013 and with moments of spatial freedom from pain in the midst of screaming physical discomfort.<\/em><\/p>\r\n One of the things I understood on that retreat was that people whose pain wouldn't just stop if they got up and walked out of meditation had the opportunity, through this stillness coupled with breath awareness, to reach truly suffering-free moments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n Although body scanning as we know it today \u2013 and of which Hanneli presents us with a variation in this guide \u2013 was not performed exactly like this in early Buddhism, researchers believe that it is based quite directly on the third step in the Buddhist canon's instruction in mindfulness, namely observing the breath.<\/p>\r\n We hope that these nuances can form a meaningful background for what is essential: Your own experience of your own body.<\/p>\r\n \u2018'Listen to the body space and the rhythm of your breathing,' says Hanneli.<\/p>\r\n \u2018'We don't have to do anything specific. This is not an achievement \u2013 because there is nothing to achieve. There are no externally set goals. Instead, it is about the open, unambitious, curious presence.'\u2019<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":20450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":[230,231],"focus":[212,226,202],"person":[338],"practice_category":[397,144],"position":[229,192],"varighed-kategori":[174],"class_list":["post-20446","exercise","type-exercise","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","focus-indre-balance-og-ligevaegt","focus-kropsforankring","focus-selvomsorg","person-hanneli-aagotsdatter","format-lydfil","format-video","practice_category-aand","practice_category-guidede-kropsskanninger","position-din-foretrukne-position","position-liggende","varighed-kategori-20-30-minutter"],"varighed":"28","embedded_audio":"