the body tends to efface itself

Normally, the body tends to efface itself in our world-directed activity. However, it appears as an object of conscious attention, particularly when it is inadequate for a task to be performed, be it by a lack of capacity, fatigue, illness or numbness, and whenever it becomes an object for others to whom I feel exposed. In these cases, the body’s performance is made explicit and may often be disturbed. Thus, the body has a double or ambiguous experiential status: both as a ‘lived body’, implicit in one’s ongoing experience, and as an explicit, physical or objective body. An ongoing oscillation between these two bodily modes constitutes a fluid and hardly noticed foundation of all experiencing.

–Thomas Fuchs and Jann E. Schlimme (2009) ‘Embodiment and Psychopathology: A Phenomenological Perspective’: Current Opinion in Psychiatry 22 (6), 570–575.

I find the language of the body effacing itself to be fascinating. How it is that the body can do this to itself? Is the body in this case both subject and object?

The work in the practice component of this research is to foreground the body in consciousness such that it tends not to efface itself, if at all — to patiently allow, enable or afford the body to resonate through consciousness. What are the strategies for such affordance? What does this feel like?