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 chronic tension outside of our awareness. The cerebellum adjusts the “loudness” of tension feedback. We do not sense it.

Pandiculation is THE technique to intelligently recalibrate somatic perception. The problem is hidden. If we are not addressing SMA with pandiculation, we can tell the foot to relax, but the baseline of tension will run outside your voluntary control.

The brain organizes tension based on how it perceives the anatomy. Perception is incomplete. Tension habits are the well practiced patterns of successful adaptations to the slings and arrows of life.
Habits are an efficiency. They can also become our bondage.

Pandiculate. Look for where you cannot sense.

-Eric Cooper
inspiresomatics.com
5.1.2020