The House Of Being - True Embodiment

Step into the oldest home you will ever know—your body. This meditation invites you to leave outside the door everything you think embodiment means and enter the living presence of what already is. So often we believe we need to feel a certain way to be whole or fully alive, but true embodiment is simpler—and more accessible—than that. Here, we explore the house of being: a refuge that never moves from the present, even when thoughts pull us through its thought-windows into stories of past and future.

Through stillness and imagination, you’ll rediscover that aliveness is not something to achieve but something you already are. This practice is for anyone who feels like they inhabit a half-lived life, disconnected, dissociated, and bereft of wholeness, as I have done for most of my life. I hope it offers you a way of relating to your thoughts so you have more access to the Divine - not despite the body but because of it! Much Love, Sez

Transcript

Beloved,

Whatever you know about embodiment,

I'd like you to leave this knowledge outside the door,

This door that leads into the house of your being.

We all have ideas of what it means to be whole,

Vividly alive and we all have expectations of what it might feel like to fit into our skin as the glove it is to our soul.

But I ask that you leave it all behind for just a moment in order to discover a truth so simple,

So frighteningly clear that life might never look the same again.

You're welcome to close your eyes now,

Or to take a walk and let your imagination form with every footstep.

However you listen to this,

Just take a moment to slow down,

Quietly pull on the reins of movement and just come to an inner standstill.

Even if it's just for a few breaths,

Then lean into whatever that stillness feels like for you.

Remember,

Stillness is not a lack of mental agitation,

It is a restlessness that's been invited in.

So just invite your way back into the body,

Softening into this moment,

Just as it is.

I'd like you to imagine that you are inside a house.

Make it truly yours,

A weathered cottage on an exposed sand dune,

Or an overgrown cabin deep in the bluebell woods,

The chalet clinging onto the side of a snowy mountain,

A sand-strewn shack beside the warm shores of a turquoise ocean.

We all have a home waiting to be lived inside us,

So just take a moment to feel into what home allows you to feel comfortable,

Safe and at ease.

This is your house of being.

It's full of sensation of light and warmth,

Movement and stillness.

It is your awake,

Knowing aliveness,

Not separate from the body,

But as the body,

As one seamless experience of being here.

Your unique physical body is its walls,

Its floorboards,

Its ceiling.

Your heart is its ever-lit hearth,

Keeping you warm,

Cooking up creativity,

Keeping you tethered to this earthly realm.

It's a house made from the fabric of love and inclusivity.

It keeps nothing at a distance,

Even if this doesn't feel like the truth of simply being right now.

Allow it to be something you know is possible,

But have yet discovered.

Feel into your house of being now by making contact with your sensations.

Where are you making contact with the ground?

Where is constricted and where is open in your body?

How can you tell that you are alive right now?

Find a place on your body that feels safe.

The feet,

The hands,

The breath.

This safe place is a perfect micro of the macro.

You can feel the entirety of the universe in this one place that has yet been layered by conceptual thought.

There is something fundamental about this house of being that you must understand before we continue.

Without any doubt,

You must sense in your own experience that this body,

Your sense of being alive,

Is only ever experienced in this present moment.

This house exists now and only ever in the now.

It cannot go anywhere else.

It's not a Baba Yaga house.

It has no chicken legs to carry you off into the woods with.

Its foundations are tap-rooted in the present,

In reality.

Let's ask a few questions now to make sure we really feel this.

Can you experience anything outside of this moment?

Where do all sensations arise?

Past,

Present or future?

If a thought comes up about what will happen later,

In what moment does that thought appear to you?

Can the body move into a space that stands outside of this present awareness?

Feel into presence this moment inseparable from the body,

From your sense of being.

Now let's look at what disembodiment,

Disconnection and dissociation really are in this ever-present home we never leave.

Imagine that this beautiful house you inhabit has many windows.

These windows are thoughts.

They are the way our beliefs find their way to us.

They are manifestations of the past.

They are what we build up and validate our identity through.

They are our ideas and expectations for life.

They are the only place our small sense of self manifests.

They are our proof of otherness.

They are what we experience as mind.

They are largely what we see life through and often what we see spirituality through.

But they are all just thoughts.

Some beautiful landscapes can be seen through these windows of thought.

But many are too horrifying and heartbreaking.

Within every window lives duality,

A topography of opposites.

Although a small percentage of these windows are useful,

They can never touch reality.

Thoughts show us not what life is,

But what they are.

Only your house of being,

Your body and its inner aliveness can sense the whole world with its hidden eyes,

With a truer sight than thought.

Let's look through a window of thought right now.

Let's look at lack.

As we peer through our thought window about what we do not have and might never have,

Look at how the terrain outside this window becomes barren and sparse.

Look at how the world shrivels into competition and judgment.

How could you survive out there with so little?

If you identify who you are with this scene and never take a step back from it,

To remember it's just a window,

Life will indeed look and feel very limited.

Let's just come back to your broader home now.

The sensations in your body,

Your simple sense of being alive,

Just the here-ness of this place we've never left.

Feel its fullness,

Its completeness,

Its silence.

Any sensation felt at all,

Even tightness or ache,

Is felt within presence,

Within this home.

So lean into whatever is calling you from this house of being.

What about emotional pain?

Let's look through the window of thought and see what storied landscape this is.

It has created about difficult emotions.

Every window essentially and innocently tries to offer you a way out,

So you don't have to feel a certain emotion.

Through this window of emotional pain,

We see attachment to certain states.

We see narratives and images of clinging and pushing away.

We see the futility of trying to solve our emotions through this thought landscape.

This window cannot change or solve its own imagery.

Only when we step back into our home can our emotions touch the loving,

Healing presence that is reality.

Let's settle into the physical sensation of any emotion you're feeling right now,

Without its added view.

What is this emotion's texture,

Its color,

Its shape?

And what if it is not a problem to solve,

But something to feel?

Finally,

Let's look into the way we really feel like we can split away from our home.

Anxiety,

Dissociation,

Fear.

Look through this particular window of thought right now.

You might feel like you don't look through a window of thought when you feel.

You might feel disconnected.

But if you were experiencing the truth of it,

This feeling wouldn't be a problem.

If it does cause you some concern,

Let's gently continue without any judgment on ourselves.

This particular window of thought looks much more real than many other windows.

Because it's been co-created with a vital survival mechanism,

Meaning you naturally pay much closer attention to it,

Find it easier to lose yourself to it.

It's harder to step back into your being from this view.

And that's okay.

It's this window's function,

And it is attempting to help you not feel a certain emotion that you may have been avoiding for most of your life.

Perhaps it's the feeling of helplessness,

Of inherent wrongness,

Of unworthiness.

You do feel like you are on the outside of your life,

Looking in.

Just remember you cannot ever leave the safety and deep stillness of this house.

Come back into your direct and felt sense of being.

Noticing what's here in your body,

Let's deepen your felt sense of safety with just a few questions.

Right now,

Are you alive?

Are you aware?

Do you have a body?

Feel into your safe space,

Its here-ness,

Its grounded aliveness that has the entire cosmos within it.

I'd like you to end this experience by crossing your arms over your chest and placing your hands over your upper arms,

So you are essentially giving yourself a hug.

Just tap your hands a few times,

And take a long,

Extended exhale.

You can open your eyes if you've had them closed,

Or continue to just rest here for a few moments.

Sometimes,

We spend a whole life looking through a window,

Believing it is reality.

Believing we can change the view by adding more landscapes to it.

We invest our sense of safety and stability in their ever-shifting nature.

This is the half-lived life many of us know intimately.

To move away from the window is to see it for what it is,

And come home to simple aliveness,

Without a story.

To deepen this meditation,

You can listen to it again,

But with this subtle shift.

If it feels like there's been a witness within your house,

A self who stands apart from the window,

Allow that seemingly solid entity to be seen as a small window too,

And simply rest into the felt sense of your being,

The totality of what you are,

Without a localized onlooker.

This will gently dissolve a sense of separation,

But without leaving the safety of your body.

In the end,

We're not here to rid ourselves of our views,

We're here to know who we are beyond them,

So we can look through them without being subjected to their obsessions,

Their judgments,

Their vigilance,

And their seeking for betterment through creating more windows.

So what is true embodiment?

Well,

It's not feeling good all the time,

And it certainly doesn't look a certain way.

It's much more a willingness to feel what is here,

Just as it is,

Without a story.

And that can sometimes feel messy and painful.

It can sometimes feel blissful,

And utterly confusing.

It's the willingness to return to our dwelling,

Our house of being,

And find refuge in its unwavering devotion to here.

We can be dissociated and remember that we are embodied anyway.

We can meet unwanted emotions,

And because we don't resist them through our windows,

Through our protective thoughts,

We can return to okayness much quicker.

As long as we come home to the subtle sensations in the body,

And stay there for just a few moments,

We've touched on a truth far deeper than fear and survival.

Gradually,

These windows become less interesting,

And we begin to express the world through our being.

A being that is awake,

Fluid,

Alive,

Sensory,

Safe,

Neither inside nor outside.

Eventually we realise that this house of our being is the universe,

And everything in it too,

Including our narrow windows.

And we have access to all of it,

If we are willing to brave a world unnerated by separation.

This silent,

Ever-present dwelling is your refuge.

You can spend a lifetime getting to remember it,

And it will not disappoint you with the depth of its transformative quality,

Nor its capacity for infinite love.

All it asks is that you keep stepping back into simplicity,

Which can be hard because complexity is such an alluring window to look through.

But when you are present to your aliveness,

Then you are flowing with the highest intelligence of the universe,

And you are no longer a you,

But the universe flowing with the intelligence of itself.

And all of this starts with the body.

Thank you for being here.

I've created shorter affirmations from this meditation to help you return quicker to your innate sense of wholeness.

You can find them on my profile page.

I'm truly grateful for your comments and for those who share this work.

I feel incredibly privileged to be invited into your heart and mind for a moment.

So thank you for making this space reciprocal.

Reviews

Just gorgeous.

Sez is encouraging and insightful 🙏🏻

You are my favorite Storyteller. Thank you for being here. ♥️

Returning home, looking witin becomes the answer 🙏 🌟

This was wonderful. Thank you 🙏🙏

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Glorious, thank you

I will return to this often. Reaching for the doorway of home.

Sez….♥️

A beautiful journey home, thank you Sez ❤️🙏

An gentle invitation to be welcomed home to know the aliveness always available within, to full presence though simple sense awareness. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤️

Thank you so much Sez this is so beautiful. I learned when I lost my house a decade ago that my body is my true home. This idea is a foundational part of my personal spiritual journey and embodiment practice.
Love and blessings to you

Beautiful. TY