WHY EMBODIMENT IS KEY TO CO-CREATING WITH THE UNIVERSE
Article by Corinne Nicholson
Why Embodiment is Key to Co-Creating with the Universe
The trees strong enough to bend are planted firmly in the soil, a polarity mirrored within all of us. As you extend the foliage of your light body further into the ether, the roots of your humanity must reach further down into the heart of Gaïa. As we start to more consciously embark in the multi-dimensionality of our lives, we must not forget the bodies that allow us to bring this wisdom down into our 3D reality.
How Energy Manifests Into Reality
If we look at our chakra system, or the 9 energy centers of the Human Design system, energy rises up from our lower motors, pushing our desires and needs upwards, into action, into manifestation. The upper transpersonal energy comes down and through the heart to inform the lower spheres. The lower energy strives for transcendence, and the higher energies for immanence, together they dance to produce our reality. To be embodied is to be energetically aligned, and it is what brings our spirit forth into the world, enabling co-creation with the universe.
The Many Levels of Embodying Energy
Embodiment can look like many things for different people. It means creating a life where your physical needs are tended to, where your nourishment is guaranteed, where you are protected from struggling for your survival. Embodiment means allowing yourself to feel emotion and desire, to be in touch with your sexual and sensorial energy, with the sensuous and erotic pleasures of life, the great joys of the senses. Embodiment means enjoying your body in the movement, mobility, skills, and expression that it contains. It means being able to take action, to tap into vitality, to be able to take initiative, to stand in your power, to see where you have choice. Embodiment is letting your heart crack open, to love yourself enough to let the divine care for you, to surrender to your highest will, letting all that you are come to fruition.
Embodiment means enjoying your humanity, it means tending to your self-care in a way that is not punitive but celebratory, as a reclamation of birth rights. Embodiment is grounding continuously so you can better apply your insights, and trusting your sacred path enough not to be afraid you will lose connection to what is meant for you. Sometimes we avoid grounding, we keep ourselves in high vibrational states in fear that our intuitions will disappear; as if stepping down into our humanity, into our bodies, would break our relation to our channel. However it is quite the contrary.
The Skills of Embodiment Mastery: Grounding, Self-Awareness, and Integration
In a vast array of traditions, grounding and centering are some of the first skills one learns. Across spiritual systems, one must be able to find center, to connect to it, and to always remain anchored within the body, to one’s root, and to the earth. This serves a protective quality, to come back to the self. Absent or ungrounded, energies may struggle to return fully, or at all, disbalance occurs. The point of the voyage is not just to leave, but to bring something back. Grounding gets dismissed as a beginner's practice, but it must become second hand, we must be able to recall our energy, and to anchor ourselves in our own auras in the most efficient way possible if we want to be as powerful as possible. To belong to one self enables us to belong to our highest self, to be a clear conduit. Center, ground, bring back into the body, continuously. To bring into the body is also to be here now, in the present, not just in the dimension of the mind or the ether.
Next, as we study systems and modalities, we must find their application. A textbook is useless if it cannot be related to, information loses impact if it is not connected to personal meaning and experience. This brings us to asking, how do we turn knowledge into wisdom, how do we learn to have sight? How can we attune our perception, our self-understanding, our holistic intelligence? Self-reflection is a way to start to recognize patterns, the third eye can support us in that. We must ask the questions when studying theory: how does this apply to me, how is this real for me, or not, can I think of a circumstance where this was true, or wasn’t, how do I relate to this? Journaling and meditative practices can be supportive in this, as they help to clear the mind so that we may see the waters of our thoughts and emotions as the moving currents that they are. As we get to know ourselves, we open the door to making more connections, and therefore increase integration.
Integration happens through initiation, ie. real life, embodiment anchors wisdom into the physical plane. Integration happens when we see how ideas play out in this world, in messy action, in living and doing, and showing up “for the work”. There are always organic initiations available to us, if we look at the world through the eyes of magic, within a grounded body, opportunities for growth and application surround us continuously, we simply have to raise our awareness, and accept the invitations.
Conclusion: Claiming Your Key to Your Divinity
Embodiment is communion with the divine, the dance between the divine masculine and feminine within you, it is a place of union between all your inner energies that allows spirit and matter to meet. Embodiment is being able to practice what we preach, to be a living example of all that we have learned. It is the willingness to come closer to experiencing nonduality, to be willing to live in both realms, understanding that they are one in the same. Every day you may say, my body is safe for my soul, I am committed to my vessel, to be a conduit for my highest self, I am all that I am. That is the key to becoming an active agent for your soul mission.
