The art of descent: How to land in the luxury of being human
What if being human was the point?
Fully human—in all its glory and all its mess. If a sensual life in this body, on this earth, was the luxury your soul came here for.
What if you were gifted this human—to live in, and with, and as, for this life?
If you were trusted to love and care for it as the home for your soul.
The home your soul chose so it could know and experience and truly live its fullest expression here, on this planet, at this time.
Would it change how you live your everyday?
Would it change how you show up, how you connect with others?
Would it shift the way you experience humanity—your humanity?
Becoming a Soul-Led Being
When this remembrance landed in my bones, I stopped reaching for a divinity outside of myself.
And lived with the divinity that was already within me.
That was me.
Being human became sacred.
My human experience became sacred.
I stopped living out compartmentalization between my human and soul and began living this holy communion between them.
My soul chose my human.
My human was guided by my soul.
And any hierarchy between them began to dissolve.
I cared for my body as a holy temple.
I listened to the whispers of my soul as wisdom of the divine.
It became clear that each of our journeys with life fall along a continuum of human and soul.
Variations of experiences.
Different shades of truth.
Unique paths of purpose.
And I could see myself landing in different places along that spectrum in different seasons of my life.
Early on in my journey I felt swallowed by my human experience.
Consumed and deeply challenged by being human, with a feeling of soul loss.
Awkward in my own life.
Not feeling like I belonged—anywhere.
Until I woke up to a connection with my soul, spirit and the divinity within.
I dove deep into a journey of ascending and expanding beyond what I had known.
Inspired by transcending the ‘limitations of my human experience’. Like I was leaving my human behind.
Coming Home & Descending Into My Body
And as I landed in the depths of my own unraveling, the message was clear—come home.
Home to my body.
Home to my life.
And so my journey became about landing.
Fully.
Here.
In this body.
On this earth.
In this experience.
Deeply led by my soul and healing spirit, I descended into the remembrance that possibility and potentiality was available through my human experience.
My human didn’t need to get out of the way.
My human was the way.
Being human was the only way I got to be here in this way.
When we seek to escape, avoid or numb our human experience, through excessive consumption of anything—substance, sex, media, thought, spirituality—we’re always going to feel a gap, a longing, a disconnect, a void in our lives because we are looking beyond the very thing that plugs us in and connects us to creation.
That deep ache of loneliness that doesn’t seem to make sense?
Those waves of feeling all kinds of lost?
The feeling that everything you desire feels so close yet so far?
All comes when we sever the connection between our human and soul.
When we prioritize or value one over the other.
We are both.
We need both.
We need the wisdom of our soul to lead us home to our truth.
We need the miracle of our human to live it into being.
Landing in the Luxury of Being Human
Whether we forget to connect to our human, living untethered in the world of subtle energy and spirit, or forget to tune in with our soul, living consumed by our human experience, we’ll only ever feel part of the whole that we are.
Something will always feel as if it is missing.
When we are not present to our body, to our human, when we are not listening or paying attention to its cues, messages and needs, we can experience ourselves living by our conditioning and limiting patterns and beliefs.
We’re not present enough to create on our own or forge a new way for ourselves.
We can see injury and disease as the body attempts to get our attention.
We can experience conflict in our relationships and misalignment in our work.
The wild thing is that we can see the same things when we are not present to our soul, to our spirit.
We put pressure and expectation on our human beyond what it was ever meant to carry on its own.
And so our human experience can feel all kinds of hard until we trust and deeply care for the body we’ve been given.
Trust why our soul chose to come here.
And truly live the richness of this sensual, sacred, soulful, fully human life.
It was never about transcending the human.
It was about living the art of being human.
Becoming a fully human-inspired, soul-led being.
Because this is the point.
This is the work of our lives.
To find, feel, create and live our unique alchemy of human meets soul.
We chose this life.
And we are continuing to choose it with every breath.
It may not always feel easy.
But we’re here to experience it all.
Feel it all.
Expand our capacity to hold it all.
This is the descent.
Landing here.
Living now.
Touching, tasting and living with possibility.
Creating with potentiality.
And coming home to the truth that we are a living, breathing miracle.
Carmen Ganne is a Somatic Alchemist & Life Ceremonialist who guides you to experience deeper shades of your own truth. Human-inspired and soul-led, Carmen will bring you home to what it means to live and love well. Work with Carmen via the Descent Breathwork Collective membership or apply to work with her 1:1.
