Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life
by Christine Caldwell
Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 2018 262 pages
Bodyfulness is at its heart a contemplative practice, and this distinguishes it from embodiment. Embodiment is the closest term to bodyfulness that we have had up until now. The word embodiment refers to our ability to rest our care and attention into our direct, immediate experience on a consistent basis. Bodyfulness, however, is more than just embodiment. I would define embodiment as awareness of and attentive participation with the body's states and actions. Bodyfulness begins when the embodied self is held in a conscious, contemplative environment. It's then coupled with nonjudgmental engagement with bodily processes, an acceptance and appreciation of one's bodily nature, and an ethical and aesthetic orientation toward taking right actions physically so that a lessening of suffering and an increase in human and nonhuman potential may emerge.
(p. xxiii)
-- quote submitted by Jack Y.
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