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or wiggle it until you get the feel of it, and then focus your body awareness on it. Hold it for fifteen to thirty seconds. 4. Move your point of body awareness to several other parts of your body— anywhere you like. Scratch or rub these parts as necessary until you can target them easily, until you can feel them easily with your body awareness with your eyes closed. 5. Now trace a pathway from the base of your left thumb along the sensitive inside of your arm and on up to your left shoulder. Close your eyes and concentrate on the sensation of the tracing. Imagine someone is tracing the path again for you. Retrace the path again and again with your body awareness to get the feel of it. 6. Now trace and follow a path from your left big toe, up the outside of your shin, over your kneecap, and on up the outside of your thigh to your hip, then back down to the big toe again. Do it first with the fingernails or ruler and then try tracing out the path mentally with your body awareness alone. Move your point of body awareness up and down your leg several times. Repeat this exercise for your right leg. 7. Practice the above exercises until you become familiar with mentally shifting your point of body awareness to different parts of your body. Daily Tips Robert: Practice the body awareness technique until you can trace a pathway to anywhere on your body with your point of body awareness alone, feeling your way along the surface of your skin without having to follow a manually highlighted pathway. But rub and scratch and highlight pathways as often and for as long as you need to in order to learn this technique. Brian: The first time I tried body awareness exercises I found it easier to use a washcloth dampened with warm water. Do whatever works best for you. The idea of an aid of this sort is to help you focus your attention on a specific part of your body with your eyes closed. If you can get by with using nothing but your body awareness, that is ideal. Your Program Notes/Observations