Attaching the label “me” to the image I see in the mirror is essentially all I do when thinking of myself as my body. What are you doing apart from that?
I can’t speak for Liza, but what I mean when I talk about thinking of myself as my body (though I’m more likely to use the language “identifying with my body”) is something like attending to the experiences that come from that body.
The extent to which I do this varies greatly; in particular, in certain forms of meditation I attend to those experiences to the exclusion of almost everything else. That said, if I’ve been doing a lot of that sort of meditation in a short period of time, I find that my default level of identifying with my body changes without reference to how much attention I’m actually paying at that moment. (It’s also true that my default level of attention changes, but that’s a separate issue.)
So “I’m identifying a lot with my body” can either describe a right-this-moment altered state of my attention, or a more broad frequently-over-the-last-few-weeks altered state.
I can’t speak for Liza, but what I mean when I talk about thinking of myself as my body (though I’m more likely to use the language “identifying with my body”) is something like attending to the experiences that come from that body.
The extent to which I do this varies greatly; in particular, in certain forms of meditation I attend to those experiences to the exclusion of almost everything else. That said, if I’ve been doing a lot of that sort of meditation in a short period of time, I find that my default level of identifying with my body changes without reference to how much attention I’m actually paying at that moment. (It’s also true that my default level of attention changes, but that’s a separate issue.)
So “I’m identifying a lot with my body” can either describe a right-this-moment altered state of my attention, or a more broad frequently-over-the-last-few-weeks altered state.