How to Be a Better Human: The meaning of embodiment

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We can often forget that our bodies and minds are fundamentally connected, despite the fact that so much of our day-to-day lives are influenced by the state of our bodies. In this episode of How to Be a Better Human, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, Prentis Hemphill, a therapist, somatics teacher, author, and the founder of The Embodiment Institute, joins host Chris Duffy to talk through what it means to be fully present in your body. They also chat about how embodiment can improve your understanding of yourself – and the world around you.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:15.0	It's hosted by comedian Chris Duffy and all about the big and small ways
0:20.0	we can all learn to be a little less terrible.
0:23.2	Here's an episode we thought you'd like.
0:25.2	And if you want more, follow how to be a better human
0:28.1	wherever you're listening to how to be a better human. I'm your host Chris Duffy. A topic that has come up a lot on this podcast and in my
0:45.3	conversations with friends and family off the podcast is the way that our brains and our
0:49.6	bodies are connected. It messy blood and guts
0:53.7	our brain our perception of reality is floating off somewhere.
0:57.2	That it's not in any way connected to this messy blooduts-filled body of ours.
1:02.5	And however much we want to think that our brain is somehow elevated and different from the rest
1:06.1	of our physical form, it's not, it's connected.
1:09.5	And you know that that's true if you are someone who has ever experienced a mood crash after not
1:14.0	getting a full night sleep or picked a fight with a loved one because you thought you were
1:18.5	angry about something and then it turned out you were actually just hungry.
1:21.0	Right, these are all things that we have experienced. It's very
1:23.4	relatable because it's fundamental to being a human. Now at the same time
1:28.4	translating that idea that our brains and our bodies are fundamentally linked,
1:31.9	that it's a two-way street, that's new territory for many of us.
1:35.3	It's certainly new territory for me. And that is why I think that today's guest, Prentiss Hemphill, is so interesting and so important. Prentiss is the author of what it takes to heal, how transforming ourselves can change the world.
1:47.6	Prentiss is a therapist who focuses not only on what's happening in our minds, but also in our bodies, and in the broader world, and in historical context.
1:56.2	Here's a clip from Prentices Podcast, where they talk about where this journey began.
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