I find listening to disembodied intellectuals, even when I'm interested in what they have to say, really difficult & painful these days. I start feeling this tug out of the body and into the realm totally abstracted thought. Embodied cognition has such a different impact...
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'Embodied cognition' ... nice term. Yes, we CAN have the somatic and cognitive functions online simultaneously.
@DrDanSiegel calls this 'integration'. These days I am seeing this as a specific 'skill' which needs to be cultivated. One of the core skills of Mindfulness?
It can and should be a core skill, but many don’t take mindfulness of body any where near deep enough to integrate somatic experience. Dr.Ray has been very helpful in illustrating this point gnerally. And personally, one of my mentors helped me a lot w/ somatic experience.