Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan

Published: May 31, 2024, 8 p.m.

In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness \u2014 the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being\u2019s 2021 Midwinter Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, gently guided practice as an invitation to befriend your beleaguered body, to \u201cblanket it with a little bit of tenderness, a little bit of kindness.\u201d\n\nDelve more deeply into Runyan\u2019s wisdom in her On Being conversation with Krista, \u201cOn Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems\u201d.