// Glossary
Embodied Knowledge
6 topics
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Does Having Survival Knowledge Change One's Confidence?
Knowledge not only understood in the head but remembered in the body and unconsciously demonstrated in crises. Survival skills are particularly important as this embodied knowledge, forming the foundation of confidence.
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Does Moving Your Hands Quiet Your Mind?
Perception, judgment, and understanding gained through the body rather than the head. Arises from direct hand-material interaction.
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Has Learning How to Make Things on the Internet Changed Anything?
Wisdom that is difficult to convey through text or video—gained only through the sensation of hands, bodily movement, and dialogue with tools. An aspect easily lost in Internet-based learning.
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How do physical fatigue and mental fatigue differ in how they are relieved?
Wisdom or sensation gained through the body rather than thinking with the head. The 'feel of the water' and 'floating sensation' in onsen serve as keys to relieving mental fatigue as unverbalizable embodied knowledge.
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Is Making Something Shaping One's Inner Self?
Knowledge not just understood in the head but felt and remembered in the body. Implicit knowledge such as the feel of materials, force adjustment, and sense of balance gained through handwork.
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The Meaning of Knowing One's Own Limits
The sense of limits felt not in the head but in the body. The power to read signals from the body such as fatigue, pain, or declining concentration.