Cognitive linguistics takes its inspiration from traditions in psychology and philosophy that emphasize the importance of human experience, the centrality of the human body, and human-specific cognitive structure and organization, all of which affect the nature of our experience. According to this empiricist view, the human mind - and therefore language - cannot be investigated in isolation from human embodiment. The notion of embodiment is used to refer to the social and cultural context in which the body, cognition, and language are perpetually situated. By our recent investigations of metaphorical mapping we can provide the proof that a human body determines vital aspects of our existence and experience.