gaze at/contemplate your navel

navel | American Dictionary

navel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈneɪ·vəl/(infmlbelly button)
the small round part or hollow place in the middle of the stomach which is left after the umbilical cord (= long tube of flesh joining the baby to its mother) has been cut at birth

Examples of navel

navel
The sculptures show qualities that are observed in death: bloating, distended bellies and navels, closed eyes, and puffy faces.
The great wars and their atrocities had receded from memory, and want of war now gave way to restless navel-gazing.
Botting uses the cultural and physical symbol of a navel to illustrate the bonds between person and history, and the common elements within the novel.
Place one hand over the navel while the other hand stimulates points between the ribs.
The continuing focus on war-related issues was not primarily a matter of navel-gazing, of nostalgia or a preoccupation with the past.
The hearth denoted the navel which ties the house to the earth.
The centre of mass is in the middle of the body, roughly level with the navel.
Her lace- trimmed dress had rolled up past her navel, exposing her soft, lithe body.
The center of the belly is marked with a navel indention.
When she discusses diaphragmatic breathing, she focuses on the muscles in the front of the body between the navel and the ribs.
The juxtaposition of 27 navels does not yet make for a great continental project.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Shortly thereafter, her navel began to bleed.
At £90 it is probably outside of the personal budget of all but a tiny minority of navel gazers but it should find a place in institutional and departmental libraries.
To some, such navel-gazing may seem super-uous.
After the defeat at the polls, this fundamentally corporatist representation of the party's social profile reinforced its tendency to navel-gazing, the conviction that its main task was to find itself.
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