If you’re ready to take your body scan even further, you can try something Dr Tang refers to as an ‘emotional body scan’. “Some people find that parts of their bodies areconnected to their emotions,” she says.

Instead of scanning up and down your body, an emotional body scan gets you to think about a time when you felt a certain emotion and notice where you feel the response to that emotion in your body. “Think about times where you felt happy, angry, confused, nervous and confident and try to focus on how your body reacts to those emotions,” Dr Tang explains.

This will help you figure out which parts of your body function when you feel those emotions helping you to react to them better in future. “Always end on a positive emotion with an emotional body scan,” Dr Tang says, explaining that this is so you aren’t left with negative feelings.

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