This stabilized entity is what we now call our body, but we are basically movement without particularized boundaries. Stabilizing localizes and gives the illusion of a fixed boundary. This serves us well in ordinary circumstances, but as a process of existence may become self limiting.

Excerpted from a chapter written by Emilie Conrad Da’oud included in Groundworks: Narratives of Embodiment edited by Don Hanlon Johnson North Atlantic Books, 1997