Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host, Thomas Mekonki. Thank you for downloading us today.

The topic today, reclaiming your body.

You might not have realized that your body needed reclaiming to begin with. But let me tell

you what I mean from a mindfulness perspective. I'll start with a funny example, humorous example

from a TED talk I saw recently. The name of the man is Sir Ken Robinson, and he's talking about how our education

system hampers creativity. It's a hilarious TED talk, and one of the things he talks

about is the life of university professors, and he talks about how to many university professors, the body is reduced to a

vehicle that shuttles their heads around from meeting to meeting. It's his funny way of saying that

university professors, which he used to be in his past, they're so in their head, so to speak,

they're so involved in the cognitive intellectual side of life that they forget that they have

bodies. And then he goes on to describe what a dance party looks like when a bunch of academics get

together for a conference.

And I'll let you listen in on that if you tune into Ken Robinson on the TED Talks.

But what I want to talk about here is that what Sir Ken Robinson is pointing to is actually

not just a phenomenon with university professors,

he may as well have been describing adulthood itself.

There's something really significant that happens to us.

There's a shift in the locus of our identity, if you will. You think about childhood and you think about the roly,

polly, rough and tumbling, playing out in the sun kind of kids we were

coming home with grass stains on our clothes and, you know,

a big ring of grape, jelly, and peanut butter around our mouths after lunch.

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