Embodiment and Flow with John Vervaeke, Schuyler Brown, Rafe Kelley and more
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2022
- Learning how to come to our senses and connect to our bodies is essential in an information landscape that highjacks our attention and pulls it away from what matters to us.
Our new course 'Embodiment and Flow' helps you reconnect through breathwork, mindfulness, cultural embodiment, movement, rhythm and flow training. In this launch film we play clips from the course faculty - John Vervaeke, Schuyler Brown, Nicola Price, Roger Jackson, Dr. Shama Rahman and Tom Morley - as they explain different ways we can connect to our bodies and get into a state of flow.
Read more and sign up here: www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses...
Learn practical embodiment tools you can apply to your life, and to making sense of culture in a completely new way. Learn how embodiment makes it easier to tap into a flow state - that space of being 'in the zone', where time slows down and we move seamlessly with your environment, performing at the best of our abilities. Find out what your unique embodiment needs are and learn how to meet them with the support of world-class teachers and participants from around the world.
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Can’t wait to join this course as Dr Vervaekes’ work has changed my life 🙏
How?
Can't wait to see the documentary on the genius that is John Vervaeke.
An absolutely essential conversation in these times of mass dissociation and disembodiment - thank you all for doing this work!
I’m new to the embodiment/ disembodiment concept. I’m hoping to understand more what is meant by these terms. I’m pretty confused and these explanations in the video somehow are not helping.
Is it being lost in ideas that are not being lived vs. being a living example of what we are striving to be?
@@michaelnice93 It can be hard to start - I actually do this work full-time, and have a few videos on my channel related to embodiment, grounding and resensitisation which you might find useful, brother! Feel free to watch, explain so much more there with examples and practices!
Thank you for this discussion and the focus on practices to bring us into deeper knowing states beyond the conceptual mind's experience of reality.
Marshall Vian Summers writes about being attentive as a state of knowing beyond and beneath the surface mind. Here are some excerpts from Steps to Knowledge.
"Be attentive today so that you may experience yourself in the world. Be attentive today so that you may experience that the fire of Knowledge is burning within you...and within the world...Without judgment and evaluation [mental focus], you will see through all fearful appearances that the world... and your imagination may present to you.... Be attentive and you will penetrate the false and you will receive the true. For true attention will always give you that which is true, and false attention will always give you that which is false. Today you strengthen this faculty of mind... for yourself and for the world, which needs to be recognized. For the world needs to be loved, and love only comes through true recognition."
(MVS, Steps to Knowledge)
Thank you, Janice.
06:29 Rafe quotes someone: "we think so that our thoughts can die and we don't have too." Brilliant. Every thought we have has a shelf life and that's as it should be. If this were not true (and we became attached to every thought), soon we would become so rigid in our thinking we couldn't function. Flow is the reward for going in the other direction.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I think about this I realize a few things. Flow is
not just some mountaintop experience that everyone should have once in their life. Rather it is the means by which we time into our receptive intelligence (higher self) and detach from our deceptive intelligence (left-brain).
Movement is a big part of this process and it always has been. Modern man wants to change this, in disregard evolution. We want to become brains in a petri dish, but attempting to disconnect the brain from the body is ignorant and foolish.
The body developed as a process of movement, therefore, thought is to assist in the body's process of movement. Under optimal conditions, we let go of our thoughts, ideas, beliefs, assumptions rather quickly. Otherwise we're dysfunctional... But here we are... In a totally dysfunctional society... AND this is why.
We have the right brain (or receptive intelligence) and the left brain (our deceptive intelligence)... The problem is the left brain often gets stuck in minutia and little subroutines doing some parasitic processing. Some thoughts we can't escape from, some habit energy that we are addicted to.
This is what Buddha called dukkha. It's reciprocal narrowing of our cognition and our ability to choose. We lose our agency and we suffer and as we suffer we cause others around us to suffer with us. This is the mad, mad world we live in.
Movement and flow free the brain of parasitic processing. This is not the only thing that can free the brain from parasitic processing. But when you are stuck, when you have thoughts you can't get rid of, movement is the number one force to change that.
Thank you as a practitioner of yoga, tai chi and swimmer I couldn’t agree more 🪷
Goeie tip anne! Life can be simple again
Richard grannons fortress program is saving lifes
Very interesting and informative for an infomercial ;) :)
The onslaught of stimulation is actually reinforcement of self. It maintains a state of constant separation
The body is autonomous.
The thing that exists naturally associated with body has been hijacked and transformed into something that is useful for a purpose that is not familiar to it. Our very existence is a form of bondage.
Language and the subsequent universe of ideas and thinking it creates, is a barrier to actually experiencing the world as the body senses it.
This writing and my comments are a part of the system. They reinforce the systems at play. To express is to voluntarily strengthen the bondage
Having said that, thank you
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I like what you wrote here, it rings true. My way of engaging with this stuff is to hold it lightly and to be playful with it. The whole vibe is that it’s sort of interesting but not critical or important. I have tried to root out any part of me that wants to influence or save the world. It’s about knowing and living the truth which as you so correctly point out has nothing to do with the system or the symbolic mind. Though some understanding of the system/ mind is helpful in a ‘know your enemy’ sense.
Or as is the case know the obstacle.
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@@michaelnice93
🙏🏼 we are in agreement
death is the only authentic act..
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Death is a creation of mind
It’s place and usefulness is only relevant to those who have one
Human beings as we know ourselves are the very definition of unoriginal.
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Wow! thank you
Good stuff!
Moshe Feldenkrais
Very interesting!
The trouble with personal growth is that it reinforces the belief that you are broken or insufficient, and that you are therefore dependent on being fixed or improved. We can see it in this video. John Vervaeke says that doing his embodiment technique will help you to find belonging and meaning, and David Fuller says there is a “need for practice”. But the universe is already filled with implicit belonging and meaning, and you are already part of that. And do tigers, trees, and stars have a “need for practice”?
Some of the presenters in this video mentioned the need for some kind of healing due to the stressful social context. But that context is caused by the belief that human beings are broken or insufficient. So it’s a vicious circle, and we need to prioritise the breaking down of that belief because it is the disease.
At this point, you might say that you need embodiment techniques to remember your perfect and complete status. But you really just need to deeply question the core belief that you are broken or insufficient. You might reply that deep questioning is a personal growth technique. But it is really just removing the core illusion - the spell that all human beings need to break.
Knowing David Fuller, he would ask, “Can we come to a synthesis position?” Okay, let’s go there. Once we are truly free of the belief that we are broken or insufficient, personal growth techniques will then be useful for learning specific tools or abilities for contextually unique tasks.
So how could Rebel Wisdom apply this insight? They could have a class on questioning the participants’ motivations and assumptions, as well as exploring the influence of the social context on human beings. Or they could start each personal growth class with exploring the motivations and assumptions involved in doing the class. But it must go deep.
Looks like I missed this. Are there any recorded sessions available for purchase?
Thinking is much more similar to swimming.
Than what?
@@mattgumbley1317 object based non immersive movement.
Looks great, however one thing that's always missing from these discussions is the presence of depression or other inhibiting factors.
Look up "How to practice The Change Triangle".
Almost every part of this indirectly discusses and directly addresses depression. Moving your body is the best example. I am yet to meet a single person who hasn't fully came out of or at least significantly improved their depression after 3 months of moving every day. I guided 5 close friends through it, all I did was making sure they moved every day and slept properly.
This Alfred White Northhead guy sounds really interesting
We need to parkour and Tai chi our way to climate justice 🕺 🌎 ⚖️ 🙏
14:57 I needed to put on subtitles to understand that: Maserati as a(n ad)verb?!
Gurdjieff was teaching this back in the 1910s
could you share more about his teachings? where can I read it.
⌚out .....
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So... essentially I just spent half an hour looking a commercial. Anything for the dime right?
Rebel Wisdom. Straddling the line between profound and absolute woo-woo bullshit.
Embodiment is no longer woo-woo due to advances in the neuroscience
Yes you guys do need to dance because dance takes feel and you guys calling it 'embodiment' really shows you guys need to let go some.
'Kind of, kind of, kind of' - stop yourselves for God's sake please. Either you know or you don't. If you know you talk, if you don't know you shut up. So please be done with the rampant insecure 'kind of' - it does nothing but display your insecurity which then undermines your credibility.
I get what you mean but he is in a process of discovery and speaking from a place of not already knowing and it’s vulnerable by its nature. He is also attempting to summarize the work of others who I’m sure hold all the credibility and speak authoritatively.
@@michaelnice93 You're making my point for me