It is called Body Scan and it is a simple exercise-meditation of awareness that will help you deal with stress and enhance the feeling of psycho-physical relaxation.
The meditation you will find in this video is in Italian. A meditation in English will be available soon.
Thanks to a constant practice, you will become better at identifying your body tensions and to let them go.
Numerous researches indicate that this kind of meditation, if practised regularly, is capable of increasing the ability of managing stress and anxiety while reducing, even considerably, the intensity of some kinds of pain.
Author: Paolo Assandri is a HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist and a UKCP Registered Full Clinical Psychotherapist. He is also a fully qualified Italian psychologist (Ordine degli Psicologi del Piemonte). He lives and works in London offering counselling and psychotherapy.
Warning:
This exercise is not intended to replace any kind of medical/psychological therapy. Its only purpose is to increase individual perception of well-being. If you need medical or psychological support, please contact a qualified health practitioner. Authors, producers, consultants involved in the production of this exercise are not responsible for any psychological or physical injury which could happen during or after completing the activity explained in this article.
