When you’re feeling scattered, fearful, and overwhelmed… take a deep breath and imagine sinking into your body. Our natural tendency is to get in our head and out of our body, go numb, and not feel. But in order to feel grounded, less scattered and receive our inner guidance, we first need to be sure we are fully in our body.

The reason we go numb or leave our body is from emotional or physical pain we never wanted to feel and never learned how to feel. We don’t want to feel pain, so we make a habit of leaving our body every time we hurt.  If we are especially sensitive, it’s even more tempting to stop feeling.  The problem is, when we can't feel, we can't navigate, and then we can't feel things coming in time to change our trajectory.

When we’re not listening to the valuable signals our body gives us through sensations and emotions, and we only want to think positive thoughts, it’s like taping over our car's gauges, so we never...