2024-06-03
37 分钟We often forget that our bodies and minds are fundamentally connected. But so much of our day-to-day lives are influenced by the state of our bodies. The mind-body connection is at the heart of the work of this week’s guest, Prentis Hemphill. Prentis is a therapist, somatics teacher, author, and the founder of The Embodiment Institute. Prentis joins Chris to talk through what it means to be fully present in your body and how embodiment can improve your understanding of yourself – and the world around you.For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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You'Re listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy, a topic that has come up a lot on this podcast and in my conversations with friends and family.
Off the podcast is the way that our brains and our bodies are connected.
It can be really easy to imagine that our mind, our brain, our perception of reality is floating off somewhere, that its not in any way connected to this messy, blood and guts filled body of ours.
And however much we want to think that our brain is somehow elevated and different from the rest of our physical form, its not.
Its connected.
And you know thats true if you are someone who has ever experienced a mood crash after not getting a full nights sleep or picked a fight with a loved one because you thought you were angry about something, and then it turned out you were actually just hungry, right?
These are all things that we have experienced.
It's very relatable because it's fundamental to being a human.
Now, at the same time, translating that idea that our brains and our bodies are fundamentally linked, that it's a two way street, that's new territory for many of us.
It's certainly new territory for me.
And that is why I think that today's guest, Prentice Hemphill, is so interesting and so important.
Prentice is the author of what it takes to heal how transforming ourselves can change the world.
Prentice is a therapist who focuses not only on what's happening in our minds, but also in our bodies and in the broader world and in historical context.
Here's a clip from Prentiss podcast, where they talk about where this journey began.
I decided to become a therapist primarily so that people like me could sit across from someone like themselves.
As a therapist, I was introduced to somatics, and somatics taught me the importance of the body and how much history and possibility we hold in them.
Since then, I've worked as a politicized healer trying to bridge healing work with the political domain.
And somewhere in the midst of that work, the whole world changed.