The Body Remembers
There’s a silence that arrives when the thinking mind lets go.
Not the silence of absence,
but the kind that comes when something deeper takes over.
A slowing. A listening.
A return.
For a long time, we’ve lived as though our minds were in charge.
Thinking became the measure of contribution.
Words became the proof of understanding.
Speed became the sign of competence.
But underneath it all, the body is what makes us human.
It waits while we push through exhaustion.
It waits while we scroll, and reply, and perform.
It waits while the world accelerates and machines begin to outpace us - at thinking, at solving, at planning.
And still, the body holds the memories.
That presence isn’t a task.
That wisdom doesn’t rush.
That we, too, grow from the inside out.
And not only the body -
The heart, as part of, too, waits.
For stillness.
For peace.
For the chance to feel without needing to fix.
We live in systems that reward the thinking mind.
They trust logic. They demand explanation.
They ask for clarity, even when what we need is care.
We ask people to show up.
But we don’t ask if they’re at home in their bodies.
We measure performance, but not alignment.
We praise resilience, but overlook depletion.
And so we build cultures that slowly forget what it means to feel.
To feel connected.
To feel grounded.
To feel enough.
Embodiment is not a concept.
It is a way back.
To a quiet mind, a peaceful heart, integrated in a body that is present.
And when we remember that -
as people,
as organisations,
as communities -
something changes.
We become available to life again.
Not because we slow down,
but because we return to where creation begins.