{"id":1020,"date":"2017-12-12T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/imagination-and-memory-together-act-like-valve-and-reservoir\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T00:33:00","slug":"imagination-and-memory-together-act-like-valve-and-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/imagination-and-memory-together-act-like-valve-and-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination and Memory, Together, Act Like Valve and Reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept coming back to the same thing in my experience, so I want to put it out there: It seems to me that in the TetraSeed, the aspect we call, &#8220;imagination&#8221;, operates as a valve, opening and closing.<\/p>\n<p>When imagination is closing, attention and intention are turning toward <b>memory<\/b>, closing in on memory.<\/p>\n<p>When imagination is opening, attention and intention are turning toward <b>imagining<\/b>, opening to imagining.<\/p>\n<p>Feel that?<\/p>\n<p>Somas (living beings) open toward or close away from experience.<\/p>\n<p>Attention and intention focus the power of attention on what is remembered in memory, or focus the power of attention on what is emerging in imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll say that again.<\/p>\n<p>Attention and intention focus the power of attention on a memory &#8211; or &#8211; attention and intention focus the power of attention on what is emerging in imagining. Attention and intention focus the power of attention on a memory &#8212; or &#8212;&nbsp; attention and intention focus the power of attention on what is emerging &#8212;&nbsp; in the making &#8212; in imagination.<\/p>\n<p>In closed-minded individuals, memory dominates imagination by habituated intention. Memory &#8220;suffocates&#8221; imagination.<\/p>\n<p>In open-minded individuals, imagination exceeds memory by free attention.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> CONTACT: <a href=\"https:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/contact\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/somatics.com\/images\/envelope.gif\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/div>\n<div>Add your comment &#8212; what you would like to ask or tell.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept coming back to the same thing in my experience, so I want to put it out there: It seems to me that in the TetraSeed, the aspect we call, &#8220;imagination&#8221;, operates as a valve, opening and closing. When imagination is closing, attention and intention are turning toward memory, closing in on memory. When &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/imagination-and-memory-together-act-like-valve-and-reservoir\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imagination and Memory, Together, Act Like Valve and Reservoir&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}