Parker,

You do feel your body.  If you stub your toe, don’t you feel pain?  If you run an ice cube up your arm, don’t you feel cold and the wet?

Practice tensing up parts of your body, starting with your skull, then face, nose, mouth, neck, shoulders, chest, stomach, and so on down to your toes.  Do each part of the body one at a time, separately.  Tense really hard, notice your body.  Then relax and notice your body then.  Note the differences.  Do this as a nightly ritual in bed before sleeping.

Practice how you feel.  Recall the sad times in your life.  Really visualize it.  Step into that recalled experience with remembering the smells, sounds, tastes, and visuals of that time when you were really sad.  Once you gone to that place then notice your body.  What parts are tight?  Run your body inventory from the top down to the bottom and note what areas are tense, tingling, hot/warm, etc.

Try that with other emotions like joy, anger, peace, resentment, curiosity, etc. by recalling when you felt that in your life.

Make all of this your daily practice.

Mark