1. Human development
  2. Embodiment training

Embodiment training

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As part of a strategy to counter contemporary problems, Michael Zimmerman suggests an approach to improving attitudes towards one's own body from which one has been conditioned to become estranged. He suggest that the learning process is intimately connected with changes in the body and that a change in ecological/environmental/planetary behaviour would result if we could be aware of ourselves as embodied beings and not as "paranoid Cartesian minds" in spiritless bodies. Such training would include assistance for teenagers in coming to terms with and understanding changes in their sexuality, both with respect to the opposite sex and with respect to feelings towards their own sex which need not necessarily indicate homosexual tendencies. There would also be training in understanding and accepting emotions without categorizing them as "good" or "bad", including observation of the relation between speech and bodily phenomena. There would be particular assistance for young men in coming to terms with a probable absence of adequate masculine role models in their childhood and with their fear of the power of women. In general there would be practice in perceiving the different bodily states and, ultimately, in surrendering to one's own mortality while still aware that one is a manifestation of the immortal.

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Human development
Type
(H) Concepts of human development
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Language
English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024