December 12 - Body Integration

December 12 – Body Integration 
This year, when did you feel the most integrated with your body? Did you have a moment where there wasn’t mind and body, but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and present?

My philosopher husband would cite Descartes as being to blame for the fact that we have a mind-body separation at all, and he would talk animatedly about the development of time and its influence on the demise of the principle of "I am body."  Being integrated means having no awareness of now-ness, no awareness of a difference between self and others and the world.  The world is one living, breathing organism, with you a non-divisible component.  Time is a construct, it does not exist.  Theoretically, you can't have a cohesive YOU without dropping the constructs of mind, body, time, present or you.

In a way, it is almost too late to be able to have a moment where there is no mind and body.  We are all too aware of time, and the way we view ourselves has morphed into seeing our mind and body as separate things.   To try to be a cohesive YOU is an unfair task.  Eh, but go ahead and argue with me because I hold out for the possibility.  And then I will direct you to debate it out with my resident philosopher.  I guess that a fair way to answer this question would be to identify when each of these elements was perfectly synced so I felt the most balanced, in rhythm, in tune. 

And I would answer, honestly, no.  I could say that it was when I was running:  but I am all too aware of the awkwardness of my body, the pain in my left calf and the laboring of my breath, I know I have fifteen minutes before I have to get in the shower and out the door.  I have brief seconds when I am completely in tune, and then I realize it and its gone.  But I love those moments, when I'm running and thinking "I'm running!  I'm breathing!  I'm running!" 

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