into the body

As soon as I began to study my perception, to look at my own experience, I found that there were different ways of perceiving and that the different ways provided me with different facts. There was a narrow focus which meant seeing life as if from blinkers and with the centre of awareness in my head; and there was a wide focus which meant knowing w

Growing with our bodies, all of us find ourselves at one time violated or wounded by this world in difficult ways, and still we live and breathe in this touchable, sensual world, and through trauma, through grief, through recovery, we heal in order to be touched again in the right way, as the physical consecration of a mutual, trusted invitation.

You see, this thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it’s running the shop. It’s a secondary organ; it’s a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body.

There are hundreds of thousands of kilometers of nerve fibers in a human body. How many can you wake up before we’re done?

Body sensation, rather than intense emotion, is the key to healing trauma.

Truth and knowledge lives in your body

JOSEPH CAMPBELL : Well, the ancient myths were designed to put the minds, the mental system, into accord with this body system, with this inheritance of the body.

BILL MOYERS : A harmony?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL : To harmonize. The mind can ramble off in strange ways, and want things that the body does not want. And the myths and rites were means to put t

There is no boat to bring you through the dark ocean of your anguished body…but your body itself. Storm and vessel are the same.