Right In The Palm of Your Hand

Optimizing Awareness Day 3

What did you notice about your feet?  Were you able to bring them into your awareness as you went about your day? As you played?  

Let’s add hands to your awareness mix.  As I thought about where to go today, hands stood out to me.  I am still tossing around in my head, ‘why hands?’  As I ponder this question, I remember that both the feet and the hands have an abundance of sensory receptors (10,000+ in each foot). This concentration of sensory receptors offers lots of information for our awareness.  The other thought is that they are involved in virtually everything we do.  Right now my hands are dancing around this keyboard, I can sense how I am using way too much effort to press the keys AND I can feel the quality of the silicon cover over my keys.  WOW, that’s a lot as I write this simultaneously.  

So here is today’s awareness cue.

Be curious…

With all of the stress and chaos of this day. Noticing hands is another way to bring yourself into the moment and pause the stories and scenarios spinning through your mind. Breathe and practice self-care.