This grand list of tips, tricks, and activities originated as a Google Document shared with everyone involved in the making of
Attention: People With Body Parts. This continues to act as an inspirational space for folks deciding which body part to write to and those who struggle to recognize the alignment between the body/mind.
*Please note that not every suggestion on this list is a safe or viable option for every body*
- Have someone trace out outline of your body with sidewalk chalk or marker
- Stretch
- Take close up photos of random parts of your body (a patch of skin on your leg, the inside of your ear, etc). Study them.
- Go a day without speaking
- Listen to Andrea Gibson
- Watch Seven Pounds and/or Wit
- Take a bath
- Eat slowly
- Sleep outside, preferably somewhere textured.
- Make a list of safe spaces. Visit them if possible.
- Sex--the good kind.
- This(sorry a majority of them are female bodied)
- Hold your breath
- Listen to someone else's heartbeat or your own
- Close your eyes more often
- Sweat
- Look at old pictures of yourself: how has your body changed?
- Wear clothes you really like, and clothes you've never tried...wear someone else's clothes!
- Dance
- Hang out with animals; try to get on their level
- Sing
- Draw yourself inside-out
