Notes: The Wisdom of the Body. 27-38

Book: The Wisdom of The Body. Pages 27-38

These are just the plain ole gosh darn it notes...

A. My body is not a shell, a vessel for either my mind or sould. I do not ' have a body
I am a body.

1. To be body is to claim part of our experience that has been held suspect for years.
for example: feelings, thoughts , longing for connection and our communication with something greater than ourselves ( God) & other parts of our experiences that make us whole.

B. The Practice of Wholeness

1. Affirm the complexity of our physical experience: body, mind and spirit are one complicated tapestry.

2. Body Data: Bits of Information that we constantly receive in the present.
a. physicality
b. sensory
c. emotional
d. conceptional. " I think" and the inner experience

3. Can tradional Categories be expanded?

a. Sensory Information
hear, touch , taste , smell , see? painful or Pleasurable? level of energy? Hungry-thirsty, aroused , fatigued? What physical sensations are you paying attention to or ignoring? Can you bring your attention to a particular part of your body or experience? what memories of physical sensation do you have? How do you incorporate information? Are you more attuned to
visually, auditorily, or kinesthetically? Do you notice difficulties with any of these forms of reception?

b. Posture and Movement.

c. Experience associated with " Feelings"

d. Judgements.
How do you process, analyze, or respond to any of your physical experience? Do you
connect it to other events, rationalizeit, suppress it, or label it? do you determine whether it is experience you would share with someone else or hide from them? Are you ashamed or proud, embarrassed, or frustrated?

e. Memory.
How are you connected to the moment to the past?

f. Imagining the future.
What do you look forward to, long for, or desire? Who or what do you miss?
What fantasies do you entertain- What plans?

h. Mystery and Transcendence.
What is my experience with what I know and what i don't know. How do I react to t he unexplainable? What is it like whan I suddenly get a glimpse of a bigger picture than i cannormally see? What is it to feel connect4ed to one-self, another, the universie, or god?

.4. What gives me energy and what depletes it?