Embodied vitality

Embodied Vitality concerns the human capacity to feel alive, not merely to function. Life reaches us through sensation and pleasure long before we turn those experiences into explanations.

Feeling alive begins with noticing experience rather than demanding a particular feeling from yourself. The glossary explains interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, and sensuality as contact with sensory experience.

The two capacities

Sensuality

Sensuality is the capacity to notice and inhabit sensory experience.

Pleasure

Pleasure is the capacity to register, tolerate and remain with positively felt experience.

How these capacities work together

The relationships matter as much as the individual capacities. Follow any connection below to see how these abilities support, regulate or complicate one another.

Person reading an I AWAKE book

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