The first body doing the walking is the active part of one’s “dream body”. It is that part of us closely associated with our autonomic nervous system. While the autonomic system helps to keep us breathing, our heart pumping, eyes blinking, the purpose of the dream body is that feather-light inclination that tells us to move onward when we most feel like giving up. It makes us get up in the morning when the alarm goes off, motivates us to drag our asses outside and go to work. And just like many other aspects of our lives, our subtle dream-motivator has been beaten down to the bare minimum to where it can barely keep us alive.

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