Check right now to see if you can easily inhabit your body. If you are present in your body, it will be very easy to just relax and breath, and you will feel your whole body and being pulse with life force energy. For most people this is difficult. Most of us live as disembodied people.

When you are grounded in your body, the experience of body is always there as a background, earth like feeling. Rather than continually experiencing mental energy, you feel body energy. This is different than the ‘thought’ of your body. Being in the body is to feel, deeply feel, and inhabit your body.

If we are in our body, then the world opens up to us in a profound way. If we are an embodied person, when we walk down the street we have a deep presence, and we feel so much connection with the world around us. We are right there with people when they speak with us, and we notice a rich fullness of detail in every encounter we have, every building we pass, every person we connect with. Just think about how infinitely rich and amazing the world is, but think how much we miss it when we are in our head all day.

We stay out of touch with our body largely because this is where our emotional pain accumulates. There is a vicious circle at work here: we disassociate from our body to avoid dealing with our conflicted emotions, and this process of dissociating feeds into the conflicted emotions.

When we inhabit our body, our emotional knots, including anger, can start to unwind. By being in our body we are present to the energy of emotions, and from that simple presence the energy of these emotions can begin to find its natural expression.

This isn’t an easy or quick process, by any means. But if you are out of touch with your body, as most of us are, there are many ways to find your way back home.

By Craig Mollins