Choose conscious embodiment for a fulfilling and rewarding way of life

Choosing to live embodied consciously supports us to inhabit the full spectrum of all our feelings from our experiences of being human, in the moment and without the judgements

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I spoke recently about what embodiment means for me and I spoke in terms of feeling alive, aligned, creative; feeling at one, feeling grounded, while at the same time feeling so connected with myself and having that alignment between my mind, body, spirit, that it resulted in feeling joyous and wonderful.

And I wanted to explain what embodiment really is and that is to be in the body of course, feeling connected as I say with the mind, body, spirit. But it doesn’t exclude feeling all the feelings, feeling all sensations, feeling the whole gamut of emotions.

Indeed embodiment actually is to feel all the emotions, the ones we perceive to be difficult or tricky or bad even, as well as to feel all the good emotions.

The point is to have capacity to hold space for all emotions and actually not judge them as being bad or good. Yes we can have difficult experiences and experience therefore difficult emotions. However if we have the capacity and the resilience to hold space for all of those feelings and emotions as and when they come up - that is embodiment as well.

Embodiment is having that capacity to embrace it all, to spare the judgement calls on what all of these emotions might mean, and to embrace them and to feel them fully. Rather than to denigrade, them to send them off and squash them, deny them, repress them or distract ourselves from the emotions. That is when we pathologise emotions and that can lead to a raft of symptoms, problems health issues.

So embodiment for me is the capacity, having the resilience, growing and cultivating the resilience, to feel all the feelings, to embrace them all, to hold them as preciously as each other and to cease the abandonment of ourselves when we might drop into feeling feelings that we might judge to be bad or evil or less than good or less acceptable than we think they are.