Disconnected, Overanalyzed, and Still Searching: Why We Left the Body & How to Come Back Home

When Did We Disconnect From the Body?

There isn’t a single moment in history where we lost connection to the body. It didn’t happen all at once. It was a slow erosion, a gradual drift away from presence, instinct, and internal truth. But there were pivotal shifts that shaped the collective disconnection from our internal system that we’re living in today.

Industrialization

When machines replaced manual labor, the value of the body changed. Productivity became the priority. Presence was replaced by efficiency. Instead of moving with the rhythm of the body, we moved by the rhythm of the clock. The body became something to override, not something to listen to.

Religion & Morality Systems

Many traditional systems taught that the body was something to overcome. Desire was seen as dangerous. Emotion as weakness. Sensation as sinful. Holiness became synonymous with suppression. This fractured our relationship with the body, teaching us it was something to distrust.

Colonialism & White Supremacy

Domination systems thrive on disconnection, from land, from people, and from self. Being in your internal system is dangerous to systems of control because it breeds awareness, compassion, and resistance. Disconnection was a byproduct of control and hierarchy. If people are disconnected from themselves, they are easier to rule.

Education Systems

From a young age, we are taught to sit still, suppress emotion, and perform intellectually. We are rewarded for staying in our heads and punished for listening to our bodies. Emotional expression is labeled as disruptive. The body becomes an inconvenience, not a guide.

Technology & Consumer Culture

As screens took over our attention, our bodies became background noise. Everything turned outward, curated images, online identity, endless scrolling. Instant gratification replaced deep sensing. The body got left behind in favor of digital validation.

Why Are We So Disconnected From Our Internal System?

Because being in your internal system requires things our culture avoids: slowness, stillness, silence, and sensation.

And most of us have been taught that these things are either unproductive, unsafe, or uncomfortable.

We’re conditioned to seek relief, not relationship with discomfort. So instead of being in our internal system, we:

• Numb it (scroll, drink, distract)

• Bypass it (spiritualize it away)

• Fix it (gym, diet, optimize, but never listen)

The body becomes a project. Not a partner.

Why Is Everything Being Projected as Trauma?

Because the language of trauma has gone mainstream. And while this brought needed awareness, it also created distortion.

• Psychology went mainstream – Which is good, but now everything is pathologized, labeled, and over-analyzed.

• Social media turned pain into identity – Sharing trauma gets views. Pain becomes performance. We start to identify as the wound.

• Capitalism sells healing – There is profit in brokenness. In keeping people in a loop of endlessly needing to be fixed.

• We mistake awareness for being in our internal system – Just because you can name your trauma doesn’t mean you’ve processed it. Naming is not the same as being with it.

Yes, trauma is real. But the overuse and misapplication of the term can create a feedback loop where people feel helpless, labeled, and perpetually unwhole.

So What Do We Do?

We come back to our internal system. Not to fix it. Not to optimize it. But to remember it.

To build relationship with it like a friend we forgot we needed. To feel what’s there, not for healing’s sake, but for truth’s sake.

Because truth lives in your internal system.

And once you’re back in touch with that? Society doesn’t get to tell you who you are anymore.

This is why it’s imperative to build your internal structure from where you are right now. Not from fragmentation, not from separating yourself into feminine, masculine, mother, father, inner child, or endlessly analyzing your dynamics.

But from the incorporation of the fact that you are all of those things. And the real work is in creating a version of those energies that is balanced, integrated, and in harmony.

You don’t need more separation inside of you. You need internal homeostasis.

You want to create a system that is inherently strong. You want to stand upon a solid foundation within you, one that incorporates:

• Faith

• Trust

• Will

• Love

• Sovereignty

• Freedom

• Power

That’s what leads your system. That’s what holds it. And that’s what brings you home to yourself.

Robin Dinaso / The Rhythmic Being