Body and Awareness

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our growing understanding of embodied awareness is one of the less known and most extraordinary areas of contemporary research and practice.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On one side (the left brain as it were) neuroscience in all its forms is constantly shedding new light on subjects like embodied cognition the distributed brain (brain-in-the-gut brain-in the-heart) the workings of the left and right hemisphere of the brain (McGilchrist and others) and the processing of sensory and emotional data.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On the other side (the right hemisphere as it were) our study and awareness of the experience of being in our bodies moving feeling pain dreaming meditating growing becoming ill and healing is becoming increasingly nuanced.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Academic research is approaching the experience of consciousness and awareness 'from the inside' and making remarkable discoveries. The emerging field of 'body and awareness' is transdisciplinary and multifaceted - it has no subject listing in libraries and academia or in booksellers' metadata. But it is of central importance to those interested in understanding art dance the psychology of health child learning and development trauma the psycho-ecology of extinction loss and climate change proprioception and enteroception ecological awareness meditation and the need for societal transformation in an age of multiple convergent crises.</span></p>