Building a Bridge to Your Body

Your Body as the Gateway to Awareness

Your body is one of the most direct ways you experience the entire spectrum of consciousness. It holds the stories of your energy, emotions, and patterns, even those you don’t yet see clearly. But stress has a way of dimming that connection. When things feel overwhelming, your brain naturally shifts focus, tuning out physical signals to prioritize getting through the moment.

This happens to almost everyone, and it’s something you can consciously repattern. By paying attention to your body’s signals and noticing small or nuanced sensations over time, you’re uncovering the deeper patterns and subconscious responses shaping your experience. These clues can help you understand and shift what’s been running in the background.

Your score suggests that this might be an area with untapped potential. The more you attune to your body’s signals, the more you can disrupt old cycles and create new ways of responding. This kind of awareness literally reshapes your mental map, opening up possibilities for healing and self-trust.

Recommended Micro Practice: Hands of Kindness

This daily micro-practice helps your body remember how to reconnect, so it’s already in your muscle memory when you need it most.

 1. Start with Your Hands:

Wiggle your fingers, slowly and deliberately. Imagine they’re filled with kindness and love. Picture this energy flowing from the center of your heart, down your arms, and into your hands.

 2. Feel the Sensations:

Really feel your hands—notice the tingling, the movement, the warmth, as if you’ve just stepped into your body for the very first time. Let curiosity guide you, as if human sensation is something brand new.

 3. Place Your Hands Over Your Heart:

Rest one or both hands over your heart. Bring with you all the love and kindness you just generated. Take a moment to genuinely appreciate yourself—for the struggles you’ve overcome, the strengths you’ve built, and the person you are today.

 4. Connect to Someone You Love:

Bring to mind someone who lights up your world. Imagine their energy filling the space around you, wrapping you in care, compassion, or gratitude.

 5. Breathe Through Your Heart Space:

With this connection, breathe deeply, as if each inhale and exhale flows directly through your heart. Stay here as long as it is comfortable, gently returning your awareness to your physical space. 

Mind Awareness

The mind is where Level 1 energy often organizes itself into thought loops, doubts, or narratives of overwhelm. As part of your mental map, this energy can color your perceptions, creating patterns that feel like absolute truths but are often protective mechanisms. These thoughts act as a surface-level expression of deeper shadows, shaping how you make sense of your experiences. The mind is not the source of the inner block, it’s the messenger. By noticing these mental patterns, you can start to trace the threads back to their origins, creating space to rewrite the stories you tell yourself.

If your connection to your body feels dampened, it’s common for the mind to take the lead in processing survival energy. This can make thought loops feel more dominant, as they aren’t yet balanced by the body’s signals.

If you scored between 21 and 40 in Mind Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy strongly influences your mental space. You may notice repetitive thoughts, doubts, or a sense of mental fatigue. These patterns often form as compensations when your body’s signals are harder to access, creating a sense of over-reliance on thought to make sense of experiences. Recognizing these loops is a first step toward balance—greater body awareness can support quieting the mind’s survival narrative.

If you scored between 0 and 20 in Mind Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy is less dominant in your mental space, or that these patterns feel less noticeable. This may reflect moments of clarity or less engagement with thought loops, though it’s worth considering whether energy is expressing itself more strongly in other areas. Developing body awareness can bring new insights that might shift how you experience mental patterns over time.

Heart Awareness

The heart translates Level 1 energy into emotional experiences, like numbness, sadness, or a sense of disconnection. If your connection to your body feels dampened, emotional patterns might feel harder to trace back to their origins, making them seem disconnected or overwhelming. Expanding awareness in the body can offer grounding for emotions, creating space to feel and process them without becoming stuck in their shadow.

If you scored between 21 and 40 in Heart Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy heavily influences your emotional landscape. You might feel numb, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your feelings. When body awareness is low, emotions may feel untethered, as though they arise without context. Building a stronger connection to your body can create anchors for these feelings, allowing you to process and move through them more gently.

If you scored between 0 and 20 in Heart Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy is less dominant in your emotional experience, or that emotional patterns feel less noticeable. You may feel moments of steadiness or connection, even if other areas feel heavier. Expanding body awareness may uncover subtle emotional patterns or provide deeper grounding for the ones you’re already aware of.

Relational Awareness

In relationships, Level 1 energy often shows up as withdrawal or feeling disconnected. With low body awareness, relational dynamics might feel more abstract, harder to “place,” or overly shaped by mental or emotional narratives. By expanding awareness of how energy moves in your body, you can begin to sense how these dynamics feel physically, adding another layer of insight to your connections.

If you scored between 21 and 40 in Relational Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy strongly influences your relational patterns. You might feel distant, misunderstood, or hesitant to engage with others. Without a clear connection to your body, relational energy may feel stuck in loops of thought or emotion, making it harder to fully inhabit connection. Greater body awareness can create a sense of safety that supports more open and authentic relationships.

If you scored between 0 and 20 in Relational Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy is less dominant in your relational experience. You may find ease in some connections or feel that relationships don’t carry as much weight right now. Expanding body awareness may reveal subtle dynamics in relationships that weren’t as noticeable before, offering new ways to connect.

Environmental Awareness

Your environment often mirrors your inner energy. With low body awareness, Level 1 energy might feel disconnected from physical surroundings, making the environment seem like a background feature rather than an active part of your experience. Building body awareness can create a stronger bridge between your internal state and your external space, offering opportunities to shift the energy around you.

If you scored between 21 and 40 in Environmental Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy strongly influences your environment. You might feel drained by clutter or find it hard to interact with your space in an energizing way. When body awareness is low, physical spaces might feel more overwhelming or static. Tuning into your body can help reestablish a sense of connection to your surroundings, one small step at a time.

If you scored between 0 and 20 in Environmental Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy is less dominant in your environment. Your surroundings may feel more neutral or supportive, even if other areas feel heavier. Expanding body awareness might deepen your sense of connection to your space, making it a more intentional reflection of your internal world.

Spiritual Awareness

Spirit is where Level 1 energy influences your sense of purpose and connection to something greater. When body awareness is low, this connection can feel abstract or distant, as the body acts as a channel for grounding spiritual experiences. Developing embodied awareness can bring a new sense of presence and clarity to spiritual energy, helping it flow more freely.

If you scored between 21 and 40 in Spiritual Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy might feel like a weight on your sense of purpose. Doubts, disconnection, or a sense of futility may feel dominant. When body awareness is low, spiritual patterns can feel harder to ground, making them seem distant or unreachable. Reconnecting with your body can act as a bridge, inviting more ease into your sense of meaning.

If you scored between 0 and 20 in Spiritual Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy is less dominant in your spiritual experience. You might feel more grounded in purpose or connected to meaning, even if other areas feel more challenging. Expanding body awareness might deepen this connection, helping you anchor your spiritual insights more fully in your day-to-day experience.

Seat of Witness Awareness

The seat of awareness is your ability to observe your experiences with curiosity and distance. With low body awareness, observing patterns might feel more intellectual than visceral, as the physical cues that guide self-awareness are harder to access. Expanding body awareness can help ground this process, bringing clarity to how energy flows through all fields.

If you scored between 21 and 40 in Seat of Witness Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy might feel like it pulls you into thought loops or emotional patterns, making it harder to separate yourself from them. When body awareness is low, this sense of “fusion” can feel more pronounced, as the body’s grounding influence is less available. Rebuilding a connection to your body can help you step into the role of observer with more ease.

If you scored between 0 and 20 in Seat of Witness Awareness:

This suggests that Level 1 energy is less dominant in your ability to witness your experience. You might feel a steadier connection to your inner observer, even if other areas feel more active. Developing body awareness might deepen this capacity, giving you more access to physical sensations that support clarity and distance.

Big Picture: Building Awareness, One Breath at a Time

Your results are a glimpse into how energy moves through you. Level 1 energy has a way of rooting itself deep, shaping your thoughts, emotions, and reactions before you even know it’s there. The good news is that Level One energy doesn’t own you. It’s not the whole story. It’s a signal which offers a thread to follow back to the patterns that need untangling.

Awareness doesn’t come all at once. It’s built in flashes and pauses, in the quiet moments when you notice the weight in your chest or the pull of a familiar thought. Those moments matter. They’re the ones that shift everything, not by forcing change, but by showing you the patterns for what they are—not permanent, not unbreakable, just threads waiting to be rewoven.

The work is in the noticing. Not fixing. Not perfecting. Just noticing. This is how you take back your power.

What to Watch For in the Days Ahead

Level 1 energy isn’t loud. It doesn’t scream; it hums under the surface—sometimes heavy, sometimes distant. Start small and journal or make quick notes around the following:

 • Notice the fire—or the absence of it—in your body. Where does it show up? What does it feel like?

 • Catch the thoughts that loop through your mind. What stories do they tell? Who gave them to you?

 • Pause when emotions rise. Where do they land in your body? Do they burn? Do they freeze? Do they whisper?

Each time you pause and notice, you’re nudging into awareness of your internal autopilot. 

This work is gritty. It’s raw. There’s no perfect way to do it, no right pace to move at. Every breath you take while paying attention is enough. Every small moment of awareness is a crack in the foundation of what no longer serves you.

You’ve already started the hardest part: showing up for yourself. That’s strength. That’s resilience. That’s fire.

So pause. Breathe. Feel the roots growing deep beneath you, holding you steady. You’re not here to be fixed. You’re here to unfold—exactly as you are.

Re-wire your experience of level one energy

The Level One Re-Programming Session

This recorded session guides you to experience Level 1 energy in a way that rewires your brain, helping you connect with its subtle expressions and patterns. By tuning in, you’ll learn to anchor into the micro-expressions of Level 1 energy as they unfold in your daily life.