Be on the Ground

As one develops the ability to refocus thoughts (a practice in Buddhism and in cognitive psychotherapy) and through mindfulness to even let certain thoughts pass without giving them extra life, subjects can therefore change their state of embodiment, as when a peaceful river of thought relaxes the body. 

It is only through acknowledging the uncertainties and paradoxes in everyday life and how we know very little about reality, our contradictions, or our own unconscious processes, no longer attached to the illusory, idealized self, that we can begin to find a unique capacity to be constructive with imagination, moving towards embodiment. Embodiment of what? An awakened mind in mindfulness where fantasies and illusions no longer control the individual in the same rigid way; instead, we can play with and use our illusions and symptoms in forms that give us greater humanity, insight, and conjunctions with others, as when the writer, Samual Beckett, communicated the humor of tragedy and depression to the world. One chooses to embody acceptance of what can not be different.  

If we see ourselves as an absolute, unitary  truth, we will fail to love our best qualities, imbedded in imperfect aspects, beholden instead to an idealized self-image. It is only through realizing our incompleteness and fragmentation and facing our emptiness and all the things we can't control, that our humanity and empathy can blossom in terms of what is unexchangeable and inimitable about each of us--just as every apple and tree is different, even though at the subatomic level, there is no separation or difference, another paradox--and the role we choose to play in nature.