Below you will find body awareness skills:
- Eat sour or spicy candies |
- Chewing "airwaves" or other gum |
- Eat "crunchy chocolate" very slowly |
- Run as fast as possible for 5 minutes |
- Smelling ammonia inhalant/ sticks |
- Cuddle up on warm heating or feel a warm hot water bottle |
- Walk on gravel,, small stones, pebbles, clay balls or cat litter |
- Balancing on little marbles |
- Feel bath massage gloves on your skin |
- Take a bath while listening to music |
- Walk barefoot (outside) |
- Eat chili |
- Feel an ice-pack (wrapped in a towel) on your skin |
- Dip the head into a pool of cold water or run cold water over the face |
- Massage the chewing muscles |
- Feel the different tensions of rubber bands and hair bands on your skin/ wrist |
- Roll a hedgehog ball over your arms |
- Feel crushed ice or snow in your hands |
- Melt ice cubes in your hand or in your mouth |
- Carry something heavy |
- Smell eucalyptus refreshing tissues (from the pharmacy) |
- Drink fresh lemon juice |
- Bathing your feet |
- Getting a foot massage |
- Use a hand trainer for guitarists or or tennis player |
- Walk in the rain and feel the raindrops on your skin/ face |
- Going outdoors or walk through a forest |
- Going to the sauna |
- Swimming in a cold lake (cold pond or swimming pool) |
- Smell Japanese healing oil or tiger balm |
- Take a cold/warm shower |
- Feel candle wax on the skin |
- Eat garlic |
- Do sports (try trainonly one muscle group as long a you can) |
- Listen to loud music |
- Get a massage or massage yourself; use massage equipment |
- Rolling your bare feet over a wooden stick |
- Standing with bare feet in a stream |
- Take a midday nap |
- Smelling essential oils |
- Eat spicy food |
- Put sandbags on your stomach |
- Press pain points firmly: Muscle attachment at collarbone, area between thumb and index finger |
- Lean against a wall with your back against the wall and put your knees at a 90° angle; grab a tennis ball behind your back and roll it up and down |
- Hug yourself |
- Get someone to hug you, hold you, squeeze you |
- Put a vitamin effervescent tablet in your mouth and let it melt slowly |
- Feel a toothbrush on your skin |
- Play with sensory toys (chewing necklace, figets, balls, etc.) |