may have an agenda or way of being of its own. A philosopher named Maurice Merleau-Ponty gave us the paradigm for this way of thinking: body as object. The body is a thing. But there is another way of thinking about the body. In this way of thinking, the body is not something you have but something you are: you are your body. Although we have all experienced being a body at some point, for many adults it can feel foreign or even impossible. Try repeating after me: I am my body. How does it feel to say it that way? Your body is alive, conscious, and indistinguishable from your self—the two
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