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not present”. It was agreed by everyone present that being out of
touch with one’s body and feelings was a major risk for someone in
recovery as tensions and urges could creep up on you unawares and
get the better of you. The idea of taking some time daily to check in
systematically with your body and “stay in touch with it” became the
rationale for the Body Scan exercise, which is simply a slowed down
body awareness exercise, where attention is brought very
systematically to each part of one’s body.
As one of the participants described in the follow-up interviews,
addiction brings with it a fundamental mind-body disconnection,
mindfulness allowed her to confront this in a gentle way: “I walked
around for 2 years w