Embodiment

The way through this paradox is to recognize that we always shape our experience, mostly unconsciously, with the grooves of the mind-body, which in turn reinforce themselves, because the more that the mind and breath flow through conditioned grooves, the deeper those grooves become.

Body and mind are not two separate entities. What happens in the body will have an effect on the mind and vice versa. Mind relies on the body to manifest, and body relies on mind in order to be alive, in order to be possible.

The contemporary phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty characterized his thinking as a philosophy of the lived body or the body subject. Key to his analysis was the notion of embodiment, which draws a distinction from the objective body, which is regarded solely as a physiological entity, and the phenomenal body, which is not just any body, or simp

A paradox appears in that the further we descend into the body the less we are attached to it. We find we are many bodies. We realize we are no body. The body becomes the field in which we contact the Sacred. An inner landscape becomes

When you wake each morning, you not only become freshly aware of your thoughts, you also resituate yourself in your body. We don’t experience the world purely in our minds, but as ‘embodied agents’, says Roy Salomon, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Haifa in Israel. Your sense of self is as connected to your limbs and guts as to the

Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people—in fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from inside.