Sep 29, 2026 · 16 min · 7 segments
Knowing It vs Embodying It: Why You Understand The Thing But Still Can't Do It There's a gap between knowing something in your head and feeling it in your body, and Lucy thinks it's one of the most…
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Knowing something versus embodying something, what does that even mean? So when we know something, we know we know it in our brain and that typically is in the prefrontal cortex, like forward part of our brain.
We just know it to be true or we know it in that it's a bit of information that we understand, right? We can comprehend it.
embodiment is when we feel it like with every fiber of our being a simple example of this can be like love like you go i know that person loves me like i know like it's you know a family member or whatever versus actually feeling that from a in your body state and i think some examples of this I think are really important because it helps you to understand what it means because some people won't even really know what this means but it's nervous system level when we embody it it's like every fiber of our being.
So for instance, if you use something like gratitude, so writing down things you're grateful for or even thinking them has been a well-documented process to well-being and feeling good, right? And we can know this and you can write the thing down.
It's very in your head, like it's a thought in your head or it's the thought as you write it.
When you actually feel gratitude, like you feel real warmth in your heart over the thing, that's a whole other level.
I think another really good way of putting this is... let's use confidence as a thing you could go yes I am you could tell yourself you'd be like yeah I am confident in this moment like I am confident in this thing but if your body is saying something very different like if your posture your facial expressions your tone of voice if all the things in your body are actually screaming something else then it may be true that you are confident and that you've not embodied that confidence.
So if we can't think our way to success, we have to actually physically act upon things.
intellectualize our results we have to create those results and this is why people who are highly analytical and and very box ticky mentality often don't get as far as people who will you know push themselves physically actually in their bodies to go and do things I don't know if you know if you know how sometimes you just like shake out a if you feel rubbish or whatever, you just kind of like, oh, I just need to shake myself out of this.
You have to physically put in the reps in the gym and with the weights and do the cardio.
Knowing something versus embodying something, what does that even mean? So when we know something, we know we know it in our brain and that typically is in the prefrontal cortex, like forward part of our brain.
We just know it to be true or we know it in that it's a bit of information that we understand, right? We can comprehend it.
embodiment is when we feel it like with every fiber of our being a simple example of this can be like love like you go i know that person loves me like i know like it's you know a family member or whatever versus actually feeling that from a in your body state and i think some examples of this I think are really important because it helps you to understand what it means because some people won't even really know what this means but it's nervous system level when we embody it it's like every fiber of our being.
So for instance, if you use something like gratitude, so writing down things you're grateful for or even thinking them has been a well-documented process to well-being and feeling good, right? And we can know this and you can write the thing down.
It's very in your head, like it's a thought in your head or it's the thought as you write it.
When you actually feel gratitude, like you feel real warmth in your heart over the thing, that's a whole other level.
I think another really good way of putting this is... let's use confidence as a thing you could go yes I am you could tell yourself you'd be like yeah I am confident in this moment like I am confident in this thing but if your body is saying something very different like if your posture your facial expressions your tone of voice if all the things in your body are actually screaming something else then it may be true that you are confident and that you've not embodied that confidence.
So if we can't think our way to success, we have to actually physically act upon things.
intellectualize our results we have to create those results and this is why people who are highly analytical and and very box ticky mentality often don't get as far as people who will you know push themselves physically actually in their bodies to go and do things I don't know if you know if you know how sometimes you just like shake out a if you feel rubbish or whatever, you just kind of like, oh, I just need to shake myself out of this.
You have to physically put in the reps in the gym and with the weights and do the cardio.
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