This is the most important topic of the moment.
Without embodied connection, we as human beings are lost, confused, and disempowered.
The embodied connection is the key to presence.
The Pali word for embodied means yoni. Yoni is the yogic term for female genital organs. What we are saying is embodiment means to access a “womb-like presence” in which we experience a sense of safety, nourishment, and ease; where all our needs are met instantaneously.
Perhaps the last time we experienced this was in the womb. But here’s the mind-blowing thing; this sense of being full, nourished, loved, content, and safe never has to end.
Embodiment, mindfulness, and the healing path
Severing our connection to the body is fraught with pain, dis-ease, and suffering.
A key component of the healing path is reclaiming our connection to the body, our capacity to feel, and our ability to rest effortlessly within ourselves, our center, our womb-space.
Embodiment is a component of mindfulness. The experience of being relaxed and focused simultaneously within the body is deeply pleasurable. Being at rest and settling inside the body is accompanied by an experience of joy, flow, and ease.
It’s life-changing when we finally reconnect with our natural state of embodied presence. We see there was an inner refuge all along. That in this moment of reconnection, reunion- we are home!
The stories and narratives we carry around in our minds do nothing but create a state of existential anxiety, and that state of chronic stress plays havoc with our biology.
Over a lifetime it interferes with the natural unfolding of our personal and collective dreams.
The pleasure and safety that come through mindfulness allows us to drop these stories. The energy wrapped up within our attachments is freed up, and the body and mind breathe a huge sigh of relief. This energy can then be used in other beneficial ways to support our health and our dreams.
The art of embodied awareness
The word Mindfulness is easy to misinterpret. Although everything that is said about mindfulness today is technically true, the words can only ever point to the experience, but they are not the experience itself.
The actual experience of mindfulness feels more like belly-fullness.
The quality of awareness inside our core is directly related to our sense of confidence — a natural, empowered state that arises from an embodied sense of safety, and a connection to the ground that connects us to self, others, and all things.
Full presence. Nothing to add. Nothing to take away. No one to be. Nothing to prove.
The mechanics of disconnection
When we can ground our awareness inside our body and heal the disconnection, we are on the way to healing the wounds and unresolved trauma that we carry within.
Our pelvis, lower abdomen, glutes, and lower back are areas that become numb and contracted when we disconnect from the body — when we have forgotten what it’s like to feel at ease within ourselves.
The process of opening and relaxing inside our core is the process of letting go of a lifetime of tension created by resisting and attempting to control what is.
We carry a lot of resistance. The art of Embodied awareness is to drop our resistances skilfully, gently and with unconditional friendliness towards ourselves during this process.
As resistance to what is diminishes, so does our suffering. We see the truth behind the Buddhist maxim: pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. We can take this even further and say that a large percentage of our pain is unnecessary too. And with a mastery of embodied awareness and skillful mind, the root cause of pain, sickness, and disease can be dissolved.
The minds new job!
The norm today is for our awareness to be up (in our heads) and out (externally focused). However, the whole landscape of our lives shifts when we bring the awareness down (into lower core) and inwards (internally focused).
This can become the new normal. Instead of juggling a myriad of conflicting and agitating thoughts, we can assign the mind a new role — to continuously bring our awareness inside the body and be with the flow of life within. Being embodied is to continuously experience our bodies from the inside out. To inhabit our bodies. To come home to ourselves and back to presence.
Training mind and body as one
Through embodied meditation; we reclaim our capacity to feel, to sense and perceive the subtle, as we cultivate awareness that can rest effortlessly within the body.
Embodiment tranforms our life at a profound level, creating deeper connection to the experience and feeling of being alive.
Presence is a very simple thing. Accessible only in every moment. Yet, easy to miss. Easy to overlook. In a world obsessed with self-preservation and survival of the fittest, we miss all that is beautiful. And the opportunity of a lifetime — to beautify the inner experience.
Awake where we are. In this moment.
That is all we have been seeking since the moment we lost our connection.
The source of change
We are conditioned to think that something outside of ourselves needs to change. But when we are more connected within, that conditioning falls away.
Change happens when we stop trying to change. Change happens when we feel safe on the inside, and finally come home to rest. At rest with the body in a natural state of balance.
Change happens when we upgrade our operating system. As we update the software (our mind and consciousness), the quality of our body’s function and biology transforms. The quality of our life transforms with it.
Change happens when we lift the emotional oppression from the body, and open to the possibility of freeing ourselves completely from psychological distress and its causes, in all forms.
Change happens when we learn there is a path of peace and find the courage to walk it.
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