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reading Merleau-Ponty allowed me to begin perceiving my own habit-body just because i, my consciousness, was happy, didn’t mean by body was whether or not my body felt loved was a lived set of habitual responses; it was something else entirely from my cognitive layer
the habit-body became this thing that continued to exist, as a living set of significations and habits, that ran on its own time; in parallel and tangent to my conscious, cogent awareness, and it felt love in its way, fear in its way, all the things in its way
this was especially important as a highly neurotic person, because it gave me a buffer on which to exist a body to sort of count on, whether or not my mind thought whatever it did https://t.co/x37ROVCPZU
the reasons these books worked, where something like IFS, or this or that on meditation didn’t, is because they were specifically helpful for someone highly neurotic like me - merleau-ponty through revealing the body - tantra through accepting the electricity