Prompt: Body integration.
This year, when did you feel the most integrated with your body?
Did you have a moment where there wasn't mind and body,
but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and present?
Honestly? No, not really. The last year has felt dominated by moments when my body and mind are completely at odds with each other: when I'm sitting in the chair that holds my lap desk, and my butt is sore from sitting so long, and my legs are stiff and tired, and my neck and shoulders are sore, because I've been studying and/or writing a paper for hours straight. And I want nothing more than to get the hell out of that chair, but the paper isn't finished or the outline still needs to be written or I still need to learn the outline and there are only so many hours in the day and my poor body has to suck it up and kowtow to the demands of the mind.
The irony is that law school has made me realize how much better I felt, physically, when I was teaching: I was a stand-up-and-pace kind of professor, and while it wasn't actual exercise and didn't actually keep me fit, teaching a couple of classes a day provided a nice alternative to sitting and kept me from contracting into tight little knot of unfitness. Makes me laugh, since professoring is usually seen as a pretty sedentary profession. But it's got nothing on law school.
I didn't get this one either.
Posted by: Nicole | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 01:18 PM