Body
Where life is carried physically
The body is a living system shaped long before conscious choice.
It carries biology, history, inheritance, and age, alongside the everyday demands and responsibilities of life.
Much of what the body holds is not decided, learned, or controlled. It is given.
Body at a Glance
The body is where life is carried physically.
It’s shaped by biology, history, inheritance, and age, as well as by daily demands and responsibilities.
Much of what the body carries is not chosen or controlled. It is given.
As life is lived, the body expresses how those influences are being carried through sensations like tension, fatigue, comfort, ease, or strain.
These experiences aren’t problems to solve.
They’re how life shows up physically.
It places physical experience alongside the rest of life.
Body
The body is a living system shaped long before conscious choice.
It carries biology, history, inheritance, and age, alongside the ordinary demands of daily life.
Much of what the body holds is not learned, decided, or controlled.
It is given.
As life is lived, the body expresses how those influences are being carried. Sensation, energy, posture, tension, fatigue, comfort, and ease are not explanations. They are how life appears physically.
The body doesn’t exist apart from life.
It responds continuously as life unfolds.
What the Body Holds
The body holds things like:
effort and fatigue
tension and release
comfort and discomfort
rhythm, pace, and pause
These experiences aren’t indicators of strength, weakness, or resilience.
They reflect how life is being carried at a given time, through the particular body a person has.
Physical experience often reflects pressures or supports coming from elsewhere in life, even when the source isn’t immediately obvious.
Seeing the Body Through the Hand
For example, fatigue may reflect prolonged responsibility or lack of support rather than physical limitation alone. Tension may relate to surroundings or relationships rather than the body itself.
A Note on Limits
The body isn’t something to override or control.
It reflects limits as well as capacity.
Noticing limits doesn’t require action or correction.
It simply shows how life is currently being carried through this body.