Surprise, serendipity, embodied spontaneity and getting out of a rut

There are days when I feel alive and connected, and there are days when I don't. In the latter, I often feel trapped in my own body and also within the habitual responses and gestures of my mind. By trapped in the body, I mean habitually holding a certain shape in specific situations, and so habitual that on looking back, it's not hard to see that I , my beingness , is related to this shape I…