PREVENTING BLINDNESS OF NOT SEEING AND NOT PERCEIVING THE BODY CHANGES: TOWARDS A FASTER SELF –AWARENESS

• WHAT

  In this part of the toolkit there are activities chosen to help people to develop “Self- Awareness” and “Body Awareness”. The exercises train people to notice subtle but important signals given by the body and the mind in order to change and improve the approach to life.
  For children there are activities to develop body awareness and emotions’ discover.

• WHY

  • Disordered eating may result from a lack of awareness of cues regulating food intake or a lack of responsiveness to those cues or both factors. By gaining awareness and responsiveness to bodily sensations, including those of hunger and satiety
  • Work on emotions can help the person to regulate food intake based more on bodily needs and less on emotional, situational or other factors.
  • Discover the power of the body and the mind can help people to take care more about theirselves
  • Self-awareness is a vital first step in taking control of your life, creating what you want, and mastering your future. When you are self-aware, you can see where your thoughts and emotions are guiding you. It also allows you to take control of your actions so you can make the necessary changes to get the outcomes you desire. This may include changes to your emotions, your behaviour, or your personality.
  • Body awareness includes proprioception and interoception: proprioception is the normal awareness of one's posture, movement, balance, and location based on the sensations received by the proprioceptors while interoception is contemporarily defined as the sense of the internal state of the body.
  • Mind awareness Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training. The term "mindfulness” correlates with the Pali term sati, which is a significant element of Buddhist traditions. In Buddhist teachings, mindfulness is utilized to develop self-knowledge and wisdom that gradually lead to what is described as enlightenment or the complete freedom from suffering.

• WHO

  • Trainers can use this as a guide to suggest activities to people, help them to understand and do the exercises.
  • Adults can do the exercises on their own, alone or in groups.
  • There are also activities for children.

• WHICH

  The aims of this chapter are:

  • Discover or re-discover the potentiality of yourself thanks to yoga exercises
  • Learn how to read and express your emotions
  • Help children to develop coordination
  • Help children to know and express emotions
  • Help children to find activities that made feel good
  
  

EXERCISE 1	EXERCISE 2	EXERCISE 3	EXERCISE 4	GAME 1	CASE STUDY 1
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CASE STUDY 2	WEB APP
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Results

• Game, exercise and case studies related to the prevention of blindness and inability to see body changes and progress towards a faster self-awareness were applied to approximately 82 people in 6 different countries and the following results were obtained.
• By practicing awareness to improve the ability to realize what was happening inside the body, 78% of individuals who practiced exercises 1 and 2 decided that individuals could change their emotional habits that undermined their nutritional habits in the past and regain control over both meals and emotions.
• 72% of individuals who applied exercises 3 and 4 decided that reflective and effective writing is a tool that allows people to think about themselves, gaining control in this area, giving them the ability to organize themselves according to the emotional situations that will help them achieve what they want and the results that concern them.
• 88% of individuals who played Game 1 decided to focus on emotions and feelings and to talk about them, as it can be a useful tool to understand what activities children like and give them the opportunity to do these activities.