awareness down through your body, looking for anything that stands out, such as temperature, tightness, openness, or movement of energy (swirling, rising, pressing, weighing, undulating, sinking, etc.). The purpose of noticing sensations is not to take us away from the emotion but to help us attend to it in a way that moves the emotion through us without blocking it. When emotions signal something in our body, turning kind attention toward that helps us regulate our emotions and also connect with ourselves—a connection that cannot be taken from us regardless of