What’s happening right now? What do you feel? What physical sensations are present from head to toe?

The first step in practicing the 5 A’s of Spiritual Health is Attunement—a simple, direct process of connecting to reality, perceiving your experience of the present moment, and paying attention to our physical sensations. It’s as simple as a clear-eyed consciousness: listening, feeling, acknowledging, being aware of basic sensations.

In this episode, Dr. Pam King explains attunement and the foundation it lays for cultivating greater agility and adaptivity. She oconsiders theological and psychological grounding for the benefits of attunement, and offers practical techniques, including a body scan and breath exercises.

ANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!

Show Notes

• Jill Westbrook introduces the episode
• ANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!
• What is attunement? And how does it support personal agility and adaptivity?
• Connecting to reality, the present moment, and our physical experience and sensations
• Clear-eyed consciousness
• Listening, feeling, acknowledging, noticing sensations
• Embodiment and rooting in the body
• Our bodies are part of the created order.
• God has given us bodies to know and serve God.
• Pain and stress, joy or pleasure
• How do we attune?
• How to perform a body scan
• Breath exercises
• Walking as a spiritual practice of attunement
• Breathing
• Andrew Huberman’s breath exercises: “the physiological sigh” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZKIupBUuc

About the Thrive Center

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About Dr. Pam King

Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.  Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For

• Host: Pam King
• Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
• Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
• Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
• Consulting Producer: Evan Rosa

Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.