Dallas Bragg teaches how unexpressed emotions lodge in your body as physical sensations. A body-scan meditation helps you notice where tension lives and what memory it holds. Recognizing these patterns, like shoulder tightness before a craving, reveals the emotional triggers underneath.
Your body remembers what your mind tries to forget. Emotions are stored in your body from way back when you were 4 years old if they don't get expressed. That knot in your chest, that fire in your belly, these physical sensations hold the key to understanding what keeps driving you back to crystal to calm the storm. Close your eyes. Scan your body like I did that day from head to toe. Notice where you feel tension, heat, contraction. Ask that part of your body, what memory are you holding? What are you here to tell me? Document which physical sensations preceded meth use. Right? What, what went on before you used meth? Notice if there's a pattern between specific body sensations and cravings. Think about it. Remember that tightness between your shoulder blades before you got to the party? Or that hollow feeling in your gut when you're texting with a guy. I know you used to have it and I would ignore it. Your body was speaking a language you couldn't translate yet. When we slow down and we reconnect to our body and we listen to it, we discover our bodies have been keeping perfect scores of our emotional wounds. I used to think my anxiety was just a broken brain, but now I know that flutter in my chest is actually carrying decades, decades of feeling unsafe in my own skin.
