Writing from the body, not the mind.
because it's not the same
Writing from the body is not the same as writing from the thinking mind.
I know they're not separate, but the mind is dominant in patriarchal, capitalist society that has been internalized within ourselves and the collective... and so to re-balance we must give focus and leadership to the oppressed. And at the individual level, I think that's the body is oppressed. And therefore so is the spirit embedded in this body.
To find balance and unity we must find and uplift what has been buried. This applies to so many things... so many areas of the human experience.
Same with eco-feminism... it begins with re-balancing through and beyond the fem/masc binary into queerness and androgyny - not as a prescriptive way for each individual to live, but as a way of the spirit beyond limitations.
My body doesn't want analysis, it wants acceptance, awareness and presence.
And so I show up to the page despite all the resistance, which perhaps exists as I feel it because writing so often feels like just letting my mind take up more space and energy... and maybe the bodily tension in this context means my mind's grip of doing is overpowering my being.
But this page is a physical refuge. I don't come here to think or figure out (even though I think I do sometimes)... I come here to release, surrender, and unravel. To witness.
And if inspiration or realizations come from that... beautiful, natural. That's not figuring out or fixing, that's allowing being to help you remember and reconnect...
I think -> I feel, I sense, it seems...
I understand -> that makes sense, I feel you.
How are you? -> how's your being
So just like feminism does not hate or seek to obliterate and belittle men, nor solely uplift women (but also include other folks marginalized by gender, ethnicity, race, size, ability etc), so does somatic awareness and embodiment not hate or reject the mind. It's just a hierarchical reckoning.
So I let it all stream out... and that is embodied.
Sometimes I follow prompts that help me be more specifically somatically attuned to my body.
But embodied to me means present with my existence. And that's enough.
In grounded gratitude,
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