Your Breathing Body (
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Breathing-Body-Reginald-Ray/dp/1591796598) is a set of practices designed to develop deeper embodiment, helping awareness to permeate the body. This is basically tailor-made for your situation, which is quite common. Some of the techniques from the set are on this page:
https://www.dharmaocean.org/meditation/learn-to-meditate/learn-to-meditate-foundational-practices/. The 10 Points Practice (a pretty standard body scan technique) is really fundamental and powerful.
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ou may benefit from a body-oriented form of trauma therapy or bodywork like EMDR, somatic experiencing, Feldenkrais, Hakomi, or Rolfing. Fellow DhO user Noah and I both had a lot of success with EMDR therapy. The mind develops a habit of ignoring the body in order to escape from emotions & sensations that it finds unacceptable. Body-oriented therapeutic modalities can help you to fix this problem, often with rapid results.
Developing deeper body awareness is a prerequisite for entering jhana, which precedes awakening.