Connection in Body - Spirit Body
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- And now I'm telling you a long story.
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- So I, I have some notes,
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- and this is a, a story about an imagery,
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- which I find very useful.
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- And so the first idea that, that in terms of the way
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- that you can connect your body to itself, uh,
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- so the first question is that,
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- or the idea is that your body is mapped, uh,
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- like your physical body is mapped
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- to different parts of your mind.
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- I don't know if, by the way, this may
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- all be scientifically wrong.
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- It can still be useful.
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- Um, so I want our imagery to be that maybe we have a lot
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- of nerves in our hands,
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- and maybe we have relatively fewer nerves in our elbows,
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- and maybe there's a lot of coordination in our hands,
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- and they can do lots of things, and they're important to us.
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- Uh, and maybe with our elbows they're important,
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- but maybe they don't take quite as much room
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- as our hands do, even though they're about the same size.
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- You know, my, my hand and my elbow.
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- Um, so just because a certain part
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- of your body has a certain size,
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- that doesn't mean it's the size
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- that it occupies in your brain.
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- Um, and similarly you might say your taste buds
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- or, um, might, might occupy more space in your brain than,
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- I don't know, your ear lobe.
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- And once again, they may be similar sizes.
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- And you could imagine that this, the,
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- the space in your brain that's dedicated
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- to sensing things can change, right?
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- So you hear this story of, of like taxi drivers in London
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- who have the knowledge of like the streets of London.
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- And then there's some tests. And in the process
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- of being taxi drivers, there are certain parts
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- of their brain which grow
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- because then they, they have to do all this memorizing
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- of like, spatial things.
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- Um, and likewise, you can imagine that the part
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- of your brain that's associated with the understanding
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- of your center, with, uh, with the use of your back
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- and your arms, uh, through your arms may grow.
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- Uh, and, and you can have this idea
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- that we can have spirit bodies
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- and that you can take this like the, the people
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- who do anime, the people who do
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- cartoons, so they get it, right?
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- So if you were to draw a cartoon of this stereotypic,
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- nerdy guy, he would have oversized hands
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- and an oversized brain and a more shriveled body.
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- And you could imagine, well, that's his spirit body,
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- and that's what the cartoon is representing.
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- Or you could imagine someone who, uh, was a strong man
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- and maybe, uh, maybe it's like a bodybuilder,
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- but one of those bodybuilders who's not like, uh,
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- so amazing, like a tear down, who, who only does upper body.
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- He, he ignores leg day.
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- He, and he never works his core except incidentally.
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- And he sort of walks around like this.
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- And in a cartoon, he'll be then even more distorted
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- because that's his spirit body.
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- And then you can ask, what do you want
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- your spirit body to be?
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- And, and you can work on it,
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- and you can work on it two ways.
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- You can work on it, uh, with awareness,
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- just by paying attention.
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- You can become more aware of it, the brain can develop, um,
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- and you can work on it with like physical movement
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- and exercise and, and doing things.
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- And so you can imagine the spirit body of a,
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- a martial artist or,
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- or a boxer in their torso being like super solid.
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- Uh, and you can manage the spirit body of a,
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- a dancer maybe being curved and lines and arcs of energy.
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- And when I think about my spirit body and,
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- and dancing it, then it becomes not, uh,
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- not that I'm doing a gesture, like here's me doing a gesture
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- with my physical body.
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- It becomes this energetic thing.
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- And in my mind, I imagine myself encompassed and,
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- and that, that that is my spirit dancing
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- and that that can go on sort of to infinity.
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- It's not limited by my physical body,
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- but just by its intention.
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- So play with this idea. I find it a really useful imagery.
