Being disconnected means not recognizing your own sensations, feeling like your body is a separate entity you inhabit rather than your self, missing signals that others receive naturally. You might ignore hunger, override fatigue, push past pain because you do not fully occupy the body that experiences these things.
Living disconnected from body means missing intuition, pushing past limits, not knowing what you need because you cannot feel it.
Returning to body means gentle reoccupation, listening to sensations you learned to ignore, inhabiting yourself fully.
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Content informed by trauma research, polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), and nervous system regulation studies. For comprehensive citations and further reading, see Unfiltered Wisdom: The Book.
About the Author
Robert Greene is the author and founder of Unfiltered Wisdom, a US Navy veteran, and a trauma survivor with over 10 years of experience in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. He is certified in Yoga for Meditation from the Yogic School of Mystic Arts (Dharamsala, India, 2016) and affiliated with Holistic Veterans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving veterans in Santa Cruz, California.