Overlooked:
The embodied self
Depression is not only sad thoughts. It can bring a felt heaviness, a body that is hard to inhabit.
Addiction is not only a habit. Its craving is connected deeply to the body, insistently.
Anorexia, OCD, chronic pain often involve a genuinely altered sense of the body.
And beyond illness, our definition of what we are and what we are not, shapes something central to society, culture, and religion: our idea about life and death. Rethinking what we mean by “self” can open unexpected new perspectives.
The therapeutic gap
Therapies today rarely reach the embodied self directly. That is one reason so many people do not fully recover.
The idea is not new. Modern psychiatry has recognised the importance of repairing the model about the narrative and embodied self since decades. What is missing is a precise, measurable way to intervene at the level of that model.
Why now
For the first time, effective tools are accessible: psychedelics, immersive VR, AI-enhanced auditory, visual and language interactions.
States once reachable only through years of mental training or meditation, or not at all, can now be induced deliberately.
The bigger picture
Changing your model of your self is not only for patients, it’s for everybody.
The focus on your ego. Craving. Fear of death.
A rigid, over-attached self narrows the world. Loosening it can heal. It can set you free.