Embodiment is a term that is used quite liberally within certain spiritual communities and until there is experiential knowledge of what it means – it remains on the surface as a word that can be passed along without tapping into the roots of how it actually feels and this is at the crux of the word itself.
It is akin to the difference between meditating through direct perception and meditating with the mind alone. Direct perception completely transforms the meditative experience – so what is it?
There are so many visualisation techniques in meditation but they only really have power and clarity of purpose once we have established a deep inner experience of embodiment within the body first. It is paramount if one is to progress in meditation effectively to first learn direct perception because it opens up a sense door within us that allows us to witness energy and awareness running through our channels firstly with impedance and later with less and less of it. If we do not have direct perception there is no grounded experiential knowledge of the process – certainty comes through the body – not the mind. Without it we spend our time distracted by how those impedances are rendered through our minds and create wonderful stories out of them but it takes us in circles – not spirals. If we grow our meditation through using those impedances effectively as our fuel through direct perception we clear them as we progress and find ourselves opening from the inside and deepening into the life experience coming to meditate through the body – with the body as our filter of experience the mind effectively becomes a printer at the end of the experience – it does not interfere – the printer does not create the content – it simply relays it in some way at the end.