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It is morning and here I am trying to get up and get on with my day. Like the past couple of days, today is another early start, with little-to-no sleep. I try to get myself out of bed, and with all my attempts, it feels like my body isn’t ready. I tried to negotiate with it. Giving it time, but it's not working. I lean in and ask it, "what do you need to wake up?" What I heard isn’t what I wanted to and yet was not surprising. My body responded “I need you to...

Empowerment happens when we inhabit our body.

My mentor Jack Kornfield in his podcast “the wisdom hour” shares the story of a man that lived 10 metre away from his body. In all honesty that was me few years back. The only thing I sensed in my body, was my back aches, my headaches, hunger, anger and fatigue.

Sitting through my body scan meditation, was torture. Every part I connected with, felt numb, numb and number. I have to say, I asked myself if this practice of meditation was...