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Most people are familiar with a feeling chart and how it can help you categorize emotions in order to better understand how you are feeling. However, most people have never heard of a body sensations chart.
Just as your emotions contain powerful information to help you understand you; your body also contains powerful information to help you understand you. Listening to your body will help you discover your core emotions, connect to your authentic self, and live a life that honors God, just as learning to listen to your emotions will help you better live the life God has called you to love. Below is a list of common words for physical sensations. You can also download our bodily sensation journal here.
Common Words for Bodily Sensations
- Achy
- Airy
- Blocked
- Breathless
- Bruised
- Burning
- Buzzy
- Clammy
- Clenched
- Cold
- Constricted
- Contained
- Contracted
- Dizzy
- Drained
- Dull
- Electric
- Empty
- Expanded
- Flowing
- Fluid
- Fluttery
- Frozen
- Full
- Gentle
- Hard
- Heavy
- Hollow
- Hot
- Icy
- Itchy
- Jumpy
- Knotted
- Light
- Loose
- Nauseous
- Numb
- Pain
- Pounding
- Prickly
- Pulsing
- Queasy
- Radiating
- Relaxed
- Releasing
- Rigid
- Sensitive
- Settled
- Shaky
- Shivery
- Slow
- Smooth
- Soft
- Sore
- Spacey
- Spacious
- Sparkly
- Stiff
- Still
- Suffocated
- Sweaty
- Tender
- Tense
- Throbbing
- Tight
- Tingling
- Trembly
- Twitchy
- Vibrating
- Warm
- Wobbly
- Wooden
How to Use a Body Sensation Chart
It is recommended that you use a body sensation chart when you are journaling, planning, or tracking your wellness and self-care. It is also a useful tool to use when you are feeing strong emotions or "just not right." You can also use a body sensation chart to better understand someone else and as a conversation starter.
It is important to remember that God created each of us unique. As a result, everyone's experience of what is going on in their body will be different. Therefore, two people can experience the exact same things and that experience will affect each person's body differently.
About the Author:
Corine Williams, Ph.D. is Clinical Psychologist that is currently seeing clients in the States of Maryland, New Jersey, and New York. You can find out more about her practice by visiting www.therapyforchristians.com/corinewilliams. In addition to providing individual therapy, Dr. Williams is also passionate about writing books and designing merchandise that educate, uplift, and normalize mental health subject in the Christian community. You can find out more about her at www.booksbycorine.com or by visiting her amazon profile here: https://www.amazon.com/Corine-Hyman/e/B00AWZ5FL2
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