More Stuck

Not that I'm any more, or less, stuck in a body than I was last Thursday, but more puzzling over embodiment. I googled embody, and encountered 6,200,000 entries--ranging from Herman Miller furniture to yoga studios to tantric methods to philosophic manifestos to UN press releases to... well, I got impatient after about 30 entries.

And, though woefully inadequate, here are a few dictionary definitions of embody, just to provide a starting point of sorts.

Merriam Webster Online
Main Entry: em·body
Function: transitive verb
Date: circa 1548
1: to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate
2 a: to deprive of spirituality b: to make concrete and perceptible
3: to cause to become a body or part of a body : incorporate
4: to represent in human or animal form : personify

Wiktionary
embodiment: a physical entity typifying an abstraction. "You are the very embodiment of beauty." "The law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the law."
Synonyms: incarnation

to embody To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify. "As the car salesperson approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he embodied sleaze." To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole. "The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists."