Awakening body consciousness : seven steps to integrating body, mind and heart / Patty de Llosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Llosa, Patty de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somesthesia.

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brington ; Chicago ; Toronto : Sussex Academic Press, 2020.

Summary:

Heartfelt, practical, accessible, spirited. Come alive to your Body Being the multi-faceted container that takes us everywhere we want to go and helps process everything that happens to us. Whether you wish to explore spiritual development, practice your own presence in the world, or simply live more richly, Awakening Body Consciousness was written for you. It links the teachings of scientist and sage, of Knowledge and Being, providing practical advice and exercises to help you cultivate a new level of body awareness. This seven-step path to vibrant physical, mental, and spiritual health unites body consciousness with the hearts own sense of truth and the minds best attention. Why seek spirit through the body? Because it is the nexus where soul and spirit connect with the ever-thrumming energy of life within us. Our DNA, our psyche, the hands that create and the minds that invent all are aspects of the living body and are dependent upon it. Awakening Body Consciousness combines ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science to reveal how our bodily presence, our sense of everyday presentness, can serve as a bridge toward the I-consciousness within us. Are we thinking animals? Are we minds dragging a body along behind us? What is mindfulness full of? Rooted in the authors decades of bodywork and studies of world religions and ritual practices, psychology and neuroscience, Awakening Body Consciousness forges a new path to developing conscious awareness. Through the practice of attention to our own presence-in-the-world, we are able to open ourselves to the experience of unity in body, mind and heart.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

STEP ONE Activating Our Fundamental Power

Why Body Consciousness?

Are You Ready?

Adopting a New Attitude

Changing the Way the Brain Works

Dissolving the Habits that Imprison Us

Neutralizing Judgmental Attacks

Sitting by the Well

STEP TWO Coming to Your Senses

Listening to The Call from Below

Connecting with Flesh and Bones

Embodying the Soul

Seeing Through the Eyes of a Tiger

Ensouling the Body

Processing Pain as Information

Collaborating with the Healer Within

STEP THREE Grounding Yourself on Mother Earth

Accessing the Healing Power of Earth

Acknowledging Your Living Matrix

Investing in the Ultimate Anti-Aging Strategy

Receiving Earth's Gift

Unloading the Burdens You Carry

Coming Up From Below

Standing Like a Tree

STEP FOUR Quieting the Monkey Mind

Emptying Your Cup

Coming Down from Above

Practicing Beginner's Mind

Developing a Free Attention

Bringing Your Mind to Your Movement

Embodying An Image

Circulating the Light

STEP FIVE Breathing Into Balance

Accepting Imbalance

Creating Conditions for Change

Celebrating Limitations

De-Activating Stress

Getting Out of the Way

Looking for Help in a New Direction

Engaging in The Action of Being

STEP SIX Aligning Body, Mind and Heart

Staying in Front of the Lack

Becoming Pervious

Making a Conscious Shift

Cultivating the Three Treasures

Applying Four Keys to Well-Being

Standing in Your Own Truth

Settling Down on Rumi's Field

STEP SEVEN Forging New Relationships with Yourself and Others

Living the Questions

Discovering that "We Is What Me Is"

Dancing with the Divine

Awakening to the Conscious Feminine

Activating a New Feeling

Healing in the Quantum Field.

Spontaneous Combustion

About the Author

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80085-827-2

1-78284-677-8

OCLC:

1350424334