Being a body arises from the need to have a complementary text a Thinking with the body.
This text is in fact aimed at those who wish to understand from a practical point of view. How the different aspects of one's life could be rethought «by one body perspective". That is, from a perspective that supports, rather than penalizes, what we are.
This is an interesting and inspiring essay, signed by Jader Tolya. Physician, researcher and trainer of experiential anatomy and from Teresa Puig, writer and yoga teacher.
Why do we often have the sensation of perceiving many ailments or discomforts?
Having a health problem that doesn't go away, even if it's not a particularly serious one, can make everyday life difficult.
Just think of those who suffer from chronic back pain or headache, but also from stomach pain or colitis. These are disorders that often accompany us for long periods of our life. Worsening in certain moments and subsiding in others. Disorders that, in acute moments, we keep at bay with various drugs and therapies. Even worse if the problem is very serious and you no longer know how to solve it. In both situations, the body, he was talking to us about something else, he was giving us a signal.
It is as if the pain, perceived in a specific organ, came from further away and brought with it a heavy and often mysterious load. Here, if you have ever felt this way, you are ready to read this interesting book.
Where does the theory supported by the authors in Being Body come from?
The theory of Tolja and Puig stems from the consideration that most of the difficulties we encounter in living arise from the fact that it is our being that adapts to the life we lead. It is not the other way around!
This happens because it was not ours the body to design ours existence. But ours mind. That, being aware of only an infinitesimal fraction of the information available to the nervous system that generated it, is based on reassuring mental abstractions.
What do the authors propose to us then?
The authors propose us to redesign the different aspects of life starting from bodily reality instead of from abstract ideasand mind. From this perspective, all areas can be rethought: work, education, fashion, architecture, medicine, sport and even spirituality.
Therefore, the invitation is to perceive one's body from the inside to better appreciate and understand all the other aspects of existence. In this essay, the authors offer concrete advice on how to try and succeed.
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