Building a Sense of Skeletalness

At first, you are likely to build your awareness of your plumb line when the plumb line more or less follows your spine. Do this. While on the phone. In line at the cashier. Hard surfaces make it easier when sitting. Shoes that don't do too much for you — or bare feet! — make it easier to find your plumb line when standing.

And then with time, watch how the plumb line shifts and adapts. You have skeletalness on your left foot. You have it on your right foot. You have it through you in different ways as you move about in the world.

Also, when you ride a horse or dance or make love, you have skeletalness together with another vertebrate. When you kayak you have it together with a nimble object. When you trip on a curb and recover, you have the awareness with the street on which you walk. Do you treasure a sense of place? Then treasure your plumb line.

[citation needed: pubmed study, possibly Amsterdam, richer cognitive maps correlating with interoception/body awareness]