COLONIZATION

Embodied Response

How body, mind, and spirit react to the world based on individual and collective experience.

In colonial philosophy the mind is a manager who controls the body.

In reality the mind is just part of a larger whole.

That responds to the world around us based on individual and collective experience.

It is experience that creates your embodied responses.

Embodied responses have deep influence on your thoughts, perceptions, and behavior.

Individual and collective experience guide our thoughts, perceptions, and behavior.

Our embodied responses happen at lightning speed and before thinking.

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Embodied responses include how your body reacts to accidentally putting your hand on a hot stove.
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Embodied response also include how you might tense up when speaking your Indigenous language in public.

Embodied Responses

In understanding your embodied responses, you create agency to change them.

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    LEXICON
    Agency
    The influence you exert over your embodied responses.
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REFLECTION

Can you identify an embodied response that influences your thoughts, perceptions, and behavior?

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