{"id":395,"date":"2022-11-21T22:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/?p=395"},"modified":"2022-11-21T22:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:18:01","slug":"quanishas-integrative-writing-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/quanishas-integrative-writing-week-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Quanisha&#8217;s Integrative Writing Week One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My ideas about the body and what I tried to convey in my mandala, is that our bodies are perfectly designed to exist in harmony with each other and with the world around us. In her book <em>Anchored<\/em>, author Deb Dana speaks on the necessity of interpersonal connection to our well-being. She states, \u201cWith connection we feel safely embodied, accompanied by others, at home in the environment, and in harmony with spirit\u201d (Dana, 2022, p.12). This was the main point of my design, to take the colors of each chakra and surround them with the \u201ccolors\u201d of the universe and convey that there is no separation between the body and the <em>spirit<\/em>. The energy, so to speak, that powers the universe is the same energy that moves us every day. In his book <em>The Healer Within<\/em>, Roger Jahnke says, \u201cThe naturally occurring self-healing ability of your own body, mind, and spirit is the world\u2019s greatest healer (Jahnke, 1999, p.7). I think this does a great job of expressing how powerfully connected we truly are. Ultimately though, I believe our bodies are beautiful enigmas and are capable of more than we know. As Bill Bryson so perfectly wrote, \u201cYour body is a universe of mystery\u201d (Bryson, 2022, p.35) and I could not agree more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bryson, B. (2022). <em>The body: A guide for occupants<\/em>. Doubleday.<\/p>\n<p>Dana, D. (2021). <em>Anchored: How to befriend your nervous system using polyvagal theory<\/em>. Sounds True.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My ideas about the body and what I tried to convey in my mandala, is that our bodies are perfectly designed to exist in harmony with each other and with the world around us. In her book Anchored, author &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/quanishas-integrative-writing-week-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/reimaginingthebody2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}