This document discusses body awareness and spatial awareness. Body awareness refers to being conscious of one's own body and how it relates to objects and other people. It helps with tasks like knowing how far to reach. Spatial awareness is understanding one's position in relation to surrounding objects. It allows for skills like navigation and avoiding obstacles. Developing these abilities is important for areas like math, writing, and social skills. Suggested activities to improve spatial awareness include obstacle courses, building with blocks, pattern games, and movement games with verbal descriptions. The conclusion states that spatial awareness is key to daily life and body awareness promotes self-care and exercise effectiveness.

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• To define the Body Awareness and Spatial
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• To understand the benefits of Body Awareness
• To know the importance of Spatial Awareness
• To identify the activities that helps to develop
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5. Body awareness is how conscious and connected you are to your own body.
It’s also known as kinesthesia, or the awareness of the position and
movement of body parts in relation to muscles and joints.
Body awareness helps us to understand how to relate to objects and people
at home, at school and outdoors. For example, proper body awareness tells
us how far to reach for objects or how close to stand next to a person.
Body awareness can also extend to your body’s cues. When you recognize
that you’re hungry, thirsty, or tired, you’re exercising body awareness.
● This is also the case with more complex cues, like when you’re at your
max during a workout, when you’re feeling lonely and in need of some
social time.

6. Fine and gross motor development are important in body
awareness.
Gross motor development occurs when the large muscle groups like
arms and legs get stronger.
Fine motor development refers to the growth of the smaller muscle
groups, like fingers.
Balance is also important. We would not expect a one-year-old to be able to
balance on a beam, yet a twelve-year-old would probably be fairly good at it.
Balancing on a beam requires body awareness. It takes time, growth, and
practice for body awareness to fully emerge.

7. Benefits of Body Awareness
Body awareness has several benefits that range from physical to emotional health.
• Better balance and stability
• Weight management
• Pain management
• Identifying and meeting your needs
• Improved mental and emotional well-being

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9. Spatial awareness refers to your ability to be aware of objects in space and your body’s
position in relation to them.
Spatial awareness is the ability to understand and interact with the environment
around you.
Whether it be avoiding obstacles when walking, reaching out to grab a pencil or
determining left from right these are all examples of tasks that require spatial
awareness.
Developing the skills to express and understand spatial skills are the first step in
understanding spatial ability and awareness such as math skills, visual perceptual
skills, and body awareness.

10. Why is it important?
Spatial Awareness
Spatial awareness allows us to be conscious of the things in our environment as well as our
position relative to them. This ability is important for several reasons, such as:
• Location. Spatial awareness gives context to the location of an object. For example,
knowing that a cup is on a table as opposed to under it.
• Movement. Having spatial awareness can inform you of how people and objects move
through the environment. This can help you navigate your surroundings.
• Social. Spatial awareness can affect social functions like maintenance of personal space.
• Reading and writing. A spatial understanding is needed for understanding sentence
structure and grammar.
• Mathematics. Some mathematical concepts also require spatial awareness. Examples
include geometry and ordering or arranging numbers.

11. 5 activities to help encourage the
development of spatial awareness:
1. Obstacle Courses: The ability to negotiate an obstacle course requires a
significant amount of spatial awareness. Vary the courses grading them according
to the child’s ability to move over, under and around objects.
2. Build and Create: Use Legos, blocks, and puzzles. Research has shown that
parents who participated in guided block play with their children had significantly
higher proportions of spatial talk.
3. Practice completing patterns: You could try Follow the Path or Patterns, Patterns,
Patterns
4. Movement Games: Participate in any type of movement games where children
have to move around obstacles or friends.
5. Provide verbal descriptions: Offer many opportunities for children to hear
descriptions of where they are or where objects are in relationship to each other.

12. We conclude that Spatial
awareness is a central
element of our daily lives. It
helps us understand, interact
and appreciate the places we
live. Body awareness is a
form of mindfulness that
helps you take better care of
yourself, maximize exercise
time and minimize risk for
injury. The more in tune you
are with your body, the more
optimally it functions.
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https://www.healthline.com/health/mind-
body/body-awareness#physical-
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https://www.healthline.com/health/spatia
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https://www.yourtherapysource.com/blo
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https://www.acefitness.org/education-
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beginners/
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