You Exist In Your Body. It Is Difficult To Feel Sometimes Because It Is Beyond Our Capacity To Tolerate

You exist in your body. It is difficult to feel sometimes because it is beyond our capacity to tolerate such great wonder and beauty. Take a moment and feel yourself. Feeling sexy or feeling your body is not as rich and exciting as feeling your self. The difference lies in the great diversity, depth and quality of sensation and the structures that organize and contain it. It is a pursuit of enlightenment. Biomechanical Enlightenment.

knowing the body: abstract reason vs direct experience

Through my entire life I was never interested in American or Western history. I studied the history of Japan and Korea at Columbia and then for eight more years at UCLA. That was a long time ago, but I have been thinking more about the body and I have returned to history. However I have become a kind of somatic historian. I have been researching the shoulder very deeply, and my hypothesis…

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What is this new embodied Enlightenment?

What is Enlightenment? What is enlightenment? Modern science called itself the age of enlightenment. The enlightenment they spoke of was intellectual not spiritual. It was the creation of scientists and philosophers, who called themselves Natural Philosohers. They repeatedly found tremendous wisdom and power in their use of reason and mathematics, writing book after book and establishing ever…

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Why Somatic Experiencing Sucks

Why Somatic Experiencing Sucks I have a professional interest in trauma theory and somatics, but I am also an enthusiast of the new field of somatic psychology. In particular, I have loved the clarity, vision, and heart expressed in the works by Peter Levine. He even narrated his own audiobook, Trauma Healing, available on YouTube, and in it tells you in his own voice that he wrote this book and…

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