Your Body Knows What's Obvious (and so so much can be so so obvious)

McGilchrist brings up again and again that the right hemisphere is more deeply connected with the body than the left one, and that it specializes in broad, open awareness — so our obvious choices are open awareness meditation and somatic meditation .

The go-to options for learning about these are:

• Reggie Ray


• Loch Kelly


• Judith Blackstone


• My Somatic Reson

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Whether we are aware of it or not, we step into any situation tuned in to some mood, a tone or frequency . When I act from contraction in my body – a clenched heart or a dense heaviness in my belly – I am often caught up in webs of stories (“I am scared, I feel resentful”) that limit the arena of my choice-making. Harmonizing the energy body is to ... See more

Just get good at paying attention to bodily sensations. It might help to actually try saying things out loud, or writing them down, just going through a list of everything you notice about how your body feels right now. What you will tend to notice over time is that there are certain characteristic familiar patterns of how you are feeling.