into the body

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.

Feelings let the mind know, automatically, without any questions being asked, that mind and body are together, each belonging to the other.

The body is a resonator; attuning to the energies of the world, it knows them.

We are not the isolated, conscious minds often assumed in our folk psychology. Rather, we are fundamentally embodied. Any spirituality that ignores how the body influences what we think and do will not be usefully transformative.

consciousness — that ultimate lens of being, which shapes our entire experience of life and makes blue appear blue and gives poems their air of wonder — is not a mental activity confined to the brain but a complex embodied phenomenon governed by the nervous-system activity we call feeling.