Mehling Wolf E, Wrubel Judith, Daubenmier Jennifer J, Price Cynthia J, Kerr Catherine E, Silow Theresa, Gopisetty Viranjini, Stewart Anita L
University of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, California, USA.
Philos Ethics Humanit Med. 2011 Apr 7;6:6. doi: 10.1186/1747-5341-6-6.
Enhancing body awareness has been described as a key element or a mechanism of action for therapeutic approaches often categorized as mind-body approaches, such as yoga, TaiChi, Body-Oriented Psychotherapy, Body Awareness Therapy, mindfulness based therapies/meditation, Feldenkrais, Alexander Method, Breath Therapy and others with reported benefits for a variety of health conditions. To better understand the conceptualization of body awareness in mind-body therapies, leading practitioners and teaching faculty of these approaches were invited as well as their patients to participate in focus groups. The qualitative analysis of these focus groups with representative practitioners of body awareness practices, and the perspectives of their patients, elucidated the common ground of their understanding of body awareness. For them body awareness is an inseparable aspect of embodied self awareness realized in action and interaction with the environment and world. It is the awareness of embodiment as an innate tendency of our organism for emergent self-organization and wholeness. The process that patients undergo in these therapies was seen as a progression towards greater unity between body and self, very similar to the conceptualization of embodiment as dialectic of body and self described by some philosophers as being experienced in distinct developmental levels.
增强身体意识被描述为通常归类为身心疗法的治疗方法的关键要素或作用机制，如瑜伽、太极、身体导向心理治疗、身体意识疗法、正念疗法/冥想、费登奎斯疗法、亚历山大技巧、呼吸疗法以及其他对各种健康状况有报道称有益的疗法。为了更好地理解身心疗法中身体意识的概念，这些疗法的主要从业者和教师以及他们的患者被邀请参加焦点小组。对这些与身体意识实践的代表性从业者及其患者的焦点小组进行的定性分析，阐明了他们对身体意识理解的共同点。对他们来说，身体意识是在与环境和世界的行动与互动中实现的具身自我意识中不可分割的一个方面。它是对具身性的意识，是我们有机体实现自我组织和整体性的一种内在倾向。患者在这些疗法中所经历的过程被视为朝着身体与自我之间更大统一的方向发展，这与一些哲学家所描述的在不同发展水平上体验到的身体与自我辩证的具身化概念非常相似。
