Each week’s challenge is crafted to direct your attention to places that are unfamiliar. This helps enforce mindfulness such that we are more mindful moment to moment of our body and what messages our body sends to us.
This week’s challenge is to pay attention to your tongue. Really! That is your invitation this week. I bet you have never had an invitation like this one!
- What is your tongue doing when you are eating?
- Does your tongue tend to hang out on the left side of your mouth or the right side of your mouth?
- Where does your tongue hang out when you swallow water?
- Does your tongue feel thick, mucousy, thin, slippery, tough, raggedy or edgy?
- How does your tongue feel from moment to moment during each and every day?
- Where does your tongue hang out in the moment when you are simply sitting listening to someone else talk?
Pay attention to your tongue this week, especially when you eat. What is your tongue doing? How does your tongue feel? What is your tongue saying to you. You tongue may be an ignored body part of your body but it is also terribly essential to your health and well being.
I’m quite sure this is not something you’ve done recently, so this exercise is guaranteed to place your attention on the present moment rather than being focused on the past or anticipating the future.
May you lead a stress-free life this week as you pay attention to what your tongue is doing in the moment.
Robert
© Parkinsons Recovery