Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-Based Strength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being in Just 30 Minutes a Week

To experience your presence in the world is to experience the world’s presence in you.

here are six simple steps to help you rediscover and reactivate the core of your being:

An intention, as used in this context, is an inner alignment, a direction, that gathers your being around a present necessity and responds to it.

‘Being present’ is a state in which you feel yourself being organized by the present: being informed by it, touched by it, moved by it, filled with it—guided by the sensitivity of a seamless whole that holds you in its embrace at every moment. That can’t be experienced if you are the one doing the organizing.

In the simplest of terms, the brain in the head is where we can consciously think; the brain in the belly is where we can consciously be.

When the body is liberated from its designated role as dumb beast, its natural spaciousness can be reclaimed by the breath.

We tend to really feel the body only when it starts complaining.

When we live in our heads, we feel we have to be in control.

The challenge of becoming embodied, then, is the challenge of altering a pattern that is both culturally reinforced and personally ingrained. It is a challenge of neuroplasticity.