Self-Attunement versus Body Attunement | Body Awareness

 Last updated: Nov 29, 2025

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In the context of Body Listening — or Conscious Body Awareness — self-attunement relates to bringing yourself into a state of harmony with and understanding of the sensations, actions, and reactions of your body, thoughts, and emotions.

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It involves active, intentional, continuous, yet effortless observation of what is going on. One could say that it’s about tuning into your own physical sensations, emotions, and mental content, while trying to understand how these three domains interact.

In turn, due to your understanding, you will typically tend to respond — that is, try to correct possible anomalies, deficiencies, or excesses — if needed.

Body attunement is an integral part of self-attunement and involves paying conscious attention to, understanding, and appropriately responding to your body’s needs, sensations, signals, actions, and reactions to make healthier choices and improve your overall well-being.

Body attunement itself can be divided into various fields, including postural, movement, sensory, breath, internal organs, and vitality attunement.

Mastering comprehensive body attunement seamlessly leads to self-attunement because of the indissoluble interconnection and interaction between your body, thoughts, and emotions.

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