Bringing Attention to the Body Through Ritual Practices

How can ritual practices help us move past getting caught up in our own stories and thoughts? And what resources can rituals offer in better embracing the whole of our experience, rather than this sort of heavy, trapped feeling that we so often, as derns, experience? Well, the ritual kind of gives every part of you something to do, as it were. Your mind is intent on whatever the focus of the practice is. You're being fed in body, speech and mind. Any sensation is in the present. I's in this moment, and it's not in your head. It's actual felt sense experience. That hugely significant.