“My body? It’s just a garage for my brain,” a dear friend and colleague quipped years ago—and she meant it. I laughed, recognizing how often I inhabited that same field of perception. ​ Now I know better. ​ The body is not an empty structure in which to park anything. What we call brain, body, heart, and spirit are not separate parts—they are expressions of a single, dynamic field of living intelligence. To divide them is not just inaccurate—it limits what we can perceive and