• We live in a world that trains us to fragment ourselves, and to keep our distance from the “lower” parts of ourselves, like the body.
• Even the practice instructions we use to undo that often have problems
  • They use the same systematic, atomizing style/mindset that caused the problem.
  • They are often drawn from instructions that were meant for different cultures in different times, and correspond to the way those people experienced their bodies, which misleads modern practitioners with a different experience of the body.
• We can find out way back to wholeness, back to resonance with the soma—but the starting point of that path has to be our own experience, our own phenomenology.
• Spending time—real, serious, joyful time—in the body is a good start
• The time that we spend in the body must tend away from the mode that sees the body as a separate object to be known and controlled—and tend toward the mode that’s not separate from the body at all; the mode that is the body’s aliveness to itself.
• Relax the systematic head-self and allow the spontaneous soma to wake up to its own awareness.
• Somatic Meditation is a real good start for this.