Are you friends with your body? Many of us have pulled back out of the body because of we’ve not learned to regulate our nervous system and resolve trauma. We hang out in our mind and may seek escape through spiritual practices.
Spiritual practices serve as an escape from suffering, not from human life. Most of us should not be using renunciate practices like denying the body. Otherwise, it becomes bypassing and practices don’t have the desired results.
We may need to do some healing and trauma work to make the body a comfortable place, though.
Especially after shifts, full enjoyment is in living them right in the life, in the body.
In this short video, Ishita Sharma explores the point.
Davidya
Thanks David, she’s a gem! Just what I needed to hear.
She is. First time running into her.
Woah! What energy, what presence! Wow!
Reminds me of indoor teachings in a Tamil siddha lineage. The master was so embodied that the physical body radiated visible (not subtle perception) light and when he moved it seemed as if divinity was moving as him. But she goes in that direction. Amazing. In tha lineage there was also endless talk about deepest embodiment.
Have you worked with her?
Much gratitude for sharing!!!!
Love
Michael
Hi Michael
No – just ran into this video and liked the message and energy. Love the bliss.
I met someone like that in ancient N America. He was called the Sun god as he was so bright, he was hard to look at. I went on a pilgrimage to see him. Quite the presence. Ran into a book reference to him awhile ago.
Hi David,
I don’t usually click on links, but there was an urge inside me to listen to her, and I found that I liked her and the words she spoke, the ideas she expressed, the energy she exuded. It was important for me to revisit the ideas about the body.
Thank you very much,
Mary
🙏
Coming back to this now, because I’ve realized that I’ve held onto some misunderstandings about embodiment. Don’t know if I can quite express my angle here, but I’ll try.
I guess the easiest way to describe it is that I somehow have had the impression that one must stay in the roughness and density of human life and from there somehow transform it. It felt like it’s either that or detachment. That only seemed to produce emotional turmoil and letting the mind take you for a ride.
Recently I realized that I can take another approach consciously, which is to “be here lightly”. At first it felt like I’m floating away from the human life, but I realized that I was just letting go of unneccessary weight. I can be aware of the body and the world, but just take everything in a lighter way instead of trying to “bring light into the drama to transform it”.
All of that was unconscious until recently, so I wouldn’t have described it like that while ago. I think there might be a lot of confusion as to what “embodiment” means, at least I’ve noticed that I’ve had a lot of unbeneficial beliefs about it.
Hi Olli
Your understanding will continue to change as the experience evolves.
Just be careful you’re not trying to manipulate your experience. Favouring certain aspects is fine, but control is just subtle mind, etc.
Broadly, we can say we start well-entangled in the body-mind. Spiritual practices take us up and out so we can experience our true nature, underneath. However, that can lead to bypassing and avoiding our human experience. It’s important to have balance in life to minimize this.
And then as the awakening is established, theres bringing that down and in – another way of describing embodiment.
Some will go way up and out, then gradually come back in, slowly.
But more ideally, we embody more as we go. We transcend, but we also heal and take care of the body.