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A morning ritual for difficult seasons
SourceReflectionPractice
Four small morning rites for meeting difficult seasons without abandoning the body.
Well-being
What the Body Remembers That the Mind Forgets
A look at embodied memory in ritual, and why physical repetition outlasts intellectual understanding.
OriginTeachingPracticeIntegration
Ask someone what a particular chant means and they may hesitate. Ask their hands to fold into the accompanying gesture and they will not hesitate at all.
This gap between explicit and embodied memory is well documented and rarely discussed in spiritual contexts, where meaning is usually assumed to live primarily in comprehension. But a great deal of what a practice teaches is stored below the level where comprehension operates.
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