Part 1: Uncovering the Faulty Premise at the Heart of Modern Disembodiment

Revealing the root causes of our chronic human disconnect.

Kaia Maeve
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“Embodiment and Reconnecting to Self: Embrace Inner Harmony” This photo shows the face of a woman with carmel-brown skin floating in a pool of blue water. Only her face is above the water and she is smiling.
Photo by Jernej Graj on Unsplash

Re-embodiment is the secret key to help you find your way back to personal equanimity. It’s a secret hiding in plain sight. And I’m on a mission to point it out and help you remember — with a giant spotlight!

Learning how to pay attention to the messages your body gives you is key. This skill will put you on a pathway back to re-embodiment, but it’s a helluva journey.

Who in this modern age knows how to truly “pay attention to what your body is telling you?

Most of Us Have Never Been Taught HOW to Pay Attention to Our Body

The world has a lot to say about “mindfulness,” but it stays pretty silent on the topic “body-fulness.” The focus of the attention is nearly always centered in the brain. Or as Erick Godzey puts it — our attention is being drawn into, consumed by, and rapidly replicated by something he calls “the shimmer.

His take on it, which I strongly agree with, is that “the shimmer” is a mythological archetype that describes the phenomenon we call “the digital world.” And the digital world imagines itself to be the centralized hub of all that…

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