Coaching practices for Embodied Cognition How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking During Conflict
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- I’m slumped over and folded into myself, and I keep wondering why I feel so unmotivated and foggy
- When I’m trying to explain something complicated I instinctively want to move my hands, but in the meeting I pin them down to look composed
- This new subject feels completely foreign and I have no footing in it, even though I’m genuinely fluent and intuitive in something physical I’ve done for years
- My thoughts and feelings are at war inside me, pulling in opposite directions, and I keep getting yanked around by whichever one is loudest
- I’ve read the definition three times and the words just slide off
Practices that may help
- Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking
Embodied cognition is the view that thinking is not confined to the brain but is shaped by the body’s sensorimotor systems, physical actions, and even posture. Lakoff and Johnson argued that abstract concepts are grounded in bodily metaphors. The research base is active and sometimes contested, but the core finding — that physical states influence cognition — has accumulated substantial experimental support. - Use posture to scaffold a productive cognitive state
Adopt an upright, open posture before cognitive work to support focus and approach motivation.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Gesture while learning or explaining
Move your hands to trace or enact what you are thinking — it aids comprehension and recall.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Map a new domain onto a familiar bodily one
When tackling an unfamiliar subject, find a physical domain you already know well and map the structure across.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Use the chessboard metaphor to anchor the perspective
You are the board on which thoughts and feelings play — not any of the pieces.
Self-as-Context (Observing Self), Made Practical - Anchor abstract concepts to a physical metaphor
Map an unfamiliar idea onto a bodily experience to make it genuinely graspable.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Learn through action, not just observation
Do the thing — physically enact, build, or rehearse — rather than studying it at one remove.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Use movement breaks to reset and consolidate
Brief physical movement between demanding cognitive tasks improves subsequent performance and supports memory consolidation.
Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking - Identify your default conflict mode
Before you can choose a mode, you have to know which one you use automatically.
The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) - Regulate the body before you process the story
When you are activated, settle the body first — insight cannot land on a flooded nervous system.
The Body Keeps the Score, Honestly Explained
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Embodied cognition is the view that thinking is not confined to the brain but is shaped by the body’s sensorimotor systems, physical actions, and even posture. Lakoff and Johnson argued that abstract concepts are grounded in bodily metaphors. The research base is active and sometimes contested, but the core finding — that physical states influence cognition — has accumulated substantial experimental support.
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Embodied cognition is the view that thinking is not confined to the brain but is shaped by the body’s sensorimotor systems, physical actions, and even posture. Lakoff and Johnson argued that abstract concepts are grounded in bodily metaphors. The research base is active and sometimes contested, but the core finding — that physical states influence cognition — has accumulated substantial experimental support.
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- Embodied Cognition How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking In A New Job
Embodied cognition is the view that thinking is not confined to the brain but is shaped by the body’s sensorimotor systems, physical actions, and even posture. Lakoff and Johnson argued that abstract concepts are grounded in bodily metaphors. The research base is active and sometimes contested, but the core finding — that physical states influence cognition — has accumulated substantial experimental support.
- Embodied Cognition How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking On A Budget
Embodied cognition is the view that thinking is not confined to the brain but is shaped by the body’s sensorimotor systems, physical actions, and even posture. Lakoff and Johnson argued that abstract concepts are grounded in bodily metaphors. The research base is active and sometimes contested, but the core finding — that physical states influence cognition — has accumulated substantial experimental support.
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