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When body awareness practice creates hypersensitivity to sensation

I have been doing body scanning for a year and now I notice every tiny sensation and it feels like my body is screaming.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Attention training without nervous system regulation is amplifying sensory overwhelm.

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