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Your body vs You
A simple change of perspective that can change everything
Mind-body activities and wisdom traditions are fashionable these days. It’s easy to join the class, wear the t-shirt and spout the jargon. It’s possible to build an identity and a social life around it too — or to be repelled by the whole scene.
In this article, I explain a shift in perspective that is powerful, but easy to overlook between postures, breathing exercises and trending techniques. You absolutely do not need the t-shirt to try it, or to benefit.
Most people are fairly comfortable with the idea that as humans we have ‘an unconscious’. There are many definitions, many arguments as to what that may be of course. Since those definitions are for the convenience of the conscious mind, it is not surprising that they are likely to miss something.
There is a saying that comes back to me, with its own little message from the deep. It demands some examination.
The body is the unconscious.
The body is the unconscious. All those processes that happen: waking or sleeping, the play of enzymes, the ebb and flow of populations in our microbiome, the regulation of hormones, the rhythms of the nervous system. These form the ground for whatever rises into awareness, in the organ that we have decided…
