BODY OF WANTING: Part One

A Somatic Guide to Desire, Intention & Manifestation

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PART ONE

What Desire Actually Is

Chapter 1

Desire Is Not What You Think

Somewhere along the line, probably between your third self-help book and your first meditation app subscription, you learned that desire was suspect. Dangerous. A little embarrassing, like emotional flatulence in public.

Spiritual traditions told you desire was the root of suffering. Capitalism told you desire was a market segment to exploit. Your mother told you not to want too much because ‘who do you think you are.’

And now you’re walking around with a chronic low-grade wanting disorder, simultaneously craving and apologizing for craving, like someone who orders dessert and then spends the entire time eating it explaining why they shouldn’t be eating it.

But desire isn’t a psychological glitch. Desire isn’t an emotion. Desire isn’t even a thought. Desire is a physical phenomenon. An energetic event. A quantum mechanism that happens in yo…