The amnesia that keeps us from knowing. The problem is an amnesia. The persistent tension, the tonal habituation, is below the threshold of our awareness. What we are up against is, as Thomas Hanna coined, Sensory-motor amnesia, SMA. You can demand places in your body to relax, but problematic limits in our somatic self-perception keep […]
How do you cross the crevasse to somatic self-knowing?
Mastery of emotion. How do you cross the crevasse to self-knowing? 5m:27s How do you cross the crevasse of not-knowing? The brain organizes muscle tension around what it senses. How do you master your emotions? -Eric Cooper inspiresomatics.com 3.13.2020
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Contibuting Influences in Thomas Hanna’s Development of Clinical Somatic Education
Look inward to find what you lost
Look inward to find what you lost “Direct the searchlight of your awareness inward.” -Thomas Hanna, PhD. Developer of Somatics Look inward to change the threshold of your perception. Look inward to fill in the missing places of the map your brain has of your body. Look inward to teach your system to recalibrate so you can sense, […]
Durability, and the issue of lasting change
Durability, and the issue of lasting change. Why is it hard to make a lasting change? The patterns run deep. The patterns, of how our muscles are held in tension, run deep. Your tension patterns have been practiced for years. Like a needle has been skipping in the groove of a vinyl record. It […]
Pandiculation is like kryptonite to a muscle cramp.
“Pandiculation is like kryptonite to a muscle cramp.” -Sarah Young, my skilled colleague, paractioner of a movement modality called ‘Original Strength’. Sarah asked me: “Care to share some about the power of pandiculation [and how it relates to cramps]?” My reply: Hi Sarah !!! Muscles that cramp are giving the brain certain perceptions that they are […]
How do posture, stress, and digestion intertwine?
How do posture, stress, and digestion intertwine? How can your digestion work if your persistent, automatic holding patterns of stress are running? Stress tensions are mostly front and back. What is posture? Posture is much more than the voice in your head saying, “Sit up straight!” Take a moment to do a body scan. Is […]
Realizing our ability to self-heal.
Realizing our ability to self-heal. People do not normally realize their own ability to self-heal, and self-correct, to notice what has gone un-noticed, to change the threshold of perception to sense what we forgot to sense. Some people set themselves free, they escape from the habit. The habit is there for a reason. Your nervous […]
Client reflects on reconnecting to the front
Client reflects on Somatics Lesson Three, Reconnecting to the front of the body. Client moved to write: Finding what was lost “Somatics Lesson 3 really moved me. And by that I mean literally in my physical body, emotionally, and at a deeper level than either of those. Lesson 3 touches into my personal history patterns, […]
How Slow is Slow?
How slow is slow? Moving slowly is an essential tool to teach your nervous system a deeper control in movement. Slow is part of the process. Slow disarms the nervous system. It takes us out of our of habituated patterns. It makes the experience new. Slow allows full cortical control of movement. This is helpful […]