Embodiment practices have great potential to enhance wellbeing and health, but Radical Wholeness goes beyond ‘mindful’ body-scans and suggestions that it would be good to listen to our bodies more. It helps us move out of our over-busy, anxious, organising, analysing heads and relate to the human and non-human world through the body.
It turns out that the body is a great sensor and resonator. Disconnected from it as most of us are most of the time we miss out on the experience of joyful aliveness, flow states and rewarding relationships. We also miss a great deal of useful information that could help us skilfully navigate the world.
The capacity to be more aware of the body and to embrace its astonishing intelligence are needed to repattern the neural pathways which develop in very early life in response to the defensive strategies of our families and from deeply held cultural beliefs. These are the patterns that control our mindsets and our physiology, immunity, digestion, breathing and cardiovascular health
