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Trauma, Sensation, and the Disconnected Body
If our bodies are physical expressions of our human experience, why are so many of us disconnected from its wisdom?
I believe humans are vastly unique, not only because of our intellect and ability to figure things out, but because of our capacity for a full spectrum experience.
From our emotional, mental, energetic, and perhaps even cosmic potential, it seems a gross understatement to say humans are complex creatures.
And as complex as we are, it seems noteworthy how we are primarily held within our physical form. Even as science begins to recognize the reality of the energetic fields that emanate from our bodies (what many traditions have called auras or energy bodies), it seems important to remember how interconnected our physical structure is within all of it.
In my explorations of what it means to be human, I’ve found myself again and again returning to my body. As much as we may be spiritual beings having a human experience, it seems a simple but important reminder that as cosmic as things may be at times, we are still having a human experience.
And part of having a human experience is very much having a body.
