5th Practice: Embodiment
At a certain age, we get thrown out of our ‘real body’ and into our ‘image’. We go from being an innocent, luminous baby to the person we’ve been named and we go from having access to all the amazing facets of our mysterious being to having a mere percentage.
We fall asleep and fully under the spell of Maya, or worldly illusion, and attempt to live up to an image largely shaped by others who went through the same process years before. There are very few exceptions to this. It is the human experience.
Along the line, we learn to neglect the natural signals that arise from our physical connection to Spirit. We hold our pee when we have to go because it is inconvenient. We don’t eat because it isn’t mealtime, even though we feel weak for hunger. We get niggling feelings in our gut about something being wrong for us, but we push ahead anyway. Or we exercise ourselves to the point of injury telling ourselves that it’s good for us.
I could go on. These are all examples of being dissociated from the body. And maybe the way you’ve been conditioned to ignore your physical vessel is to a greater or lesser extent. But it is likely that in some way, shape or form (no pun intended), your mind became ruler, because the mind is entirely capable of manipulating the body, and our body so loyal, it will do whatever the mind insists.
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