Forgotten bodies in a headspace world
"The explosion of the personality into multiple internet selves has opened up many people, including myself, to a lot of heartache. Self-dissipation becomes self-dissatisfaction. I spent years scattering myself into personality fragments on many different websites until I couldn't locate my whole self anywhere. These personality fragments became de
... See moreThe same myopic, zoomed-in perspective now appears on the cover of every health magazine. The human body is presented as an individual object, living alone, isolated and abstracted from its life-supporting systems of habitat and tribe. No background, no context, no environment. From what we see on magazine covers, we might well come to the conclusi
... See moreFrank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
This imbalance between our intelligences permeates our entire culture. We exalt the head, considering it to be the rightful ruler of the self, and deem the body to be a functional apparatus for moving the head from place to place. The allegiance we've given to the head shows up in our language, in our architecture, in our customs, and in all our re... See more
We experience our lives through our bodies whether we are aware of it or not. Yet we are usually so mesmerized by our ideas about the world that we miss out on much of our direct sensory experience.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
The place we generally start is with the body. Do you trust it? Are you aware of its signals? Do you know how to take your phenomenology seriously and move your finger? Ironically, putting our minds before our bodies pushes us to a default where our mental pre conceptions pre empt our direct experience. We ignore the reality before us, because it c... See more
Sadalsuud • It's Called "Woo" Because It's Fun
When we’re at a distance from our bodies we become confused about how to live our lives. This leads to fear, which produces violence, inequitable rights, and self-isolation. The distance we live from our body is the distance we live from our self, from our emotional reality.