{"id":1328,"date":"2015-02-24T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/on-fibromyalgia-and-full-spectrum-somatic-education\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T15:56:00","slug":"on-fibromyalgia-and-full-spectrum-somatic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/on-fibromyalgia-and-full-spectrum-somatic-education\/","title":{"rendered":"On Fibromyalgia and Full-Spectrum Somatic Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe
\n three reflexes of stress. discussed by Thomas Hanna in his definitive article on clinical somatic eduction<\/a>, are emotional reactions. They involve the
\nlimbic system — mammalian brain — however much they may also involve
\nthe reptilian brain (brain stem).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nLet’s take this discussion of FM further and deeper.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn habituation, the neocortex disengages, leaving the limbic system and cerebellum in control. Reactions are automatic.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThat’s the state of the majority of humanity most of the time.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nExceptions: moments of deliberate action, creativity, learning<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nHabituation
\n forms with the onslaught of experience — individual, cultural,
\nspecies, and planetary memory — and “befouls” (as well as constitutes)
\nthe memories and functional capacities of the individual. “Birth Trauma”
\n is better framed as “Life Trauma” — meaning compounded forms of Trauma
\n Reflex. The onslaught of experience is like gravity — an ongoing
\ninfluence that endlessly “tests” our balance and fluidity.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n“The
\n Fair State” of which Thomas Hanna wrote is an ideal, asymptotically
\napproached (but never reached), in which responses are increasingly
\nfree, creative, and finely tuned and in which attention is increasingly
\ndiscerning and accurate — both toward “the world” (3d and 2nd person)
\nand toward ourselves (1st person) — and leading to transpersonal
\nawakening (“0″th person).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThus,
\n a life may be seen as a struggle to overcome the onslaught of
\nexperience, which drives us, again and again, to lower levels of
\nfunction — lower levels of brain function (below the neocortex). By
\n“rebound” (refusal of limitation), we may awaken at the neocortical
\nlevel and creatively develop means to exceed those limitations, leading
\nto new habit formation and subsidence of the higher cortical functions.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nThus,
\n humans alternately awaken to our higher potential and then sink to
\nlower levels and then, in conditions of crisis, rise again. Such
\naccounts for the rise and fall of civilizations (including our own).
\n(That’s why people have trouble following instructions.)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n“Sensory-motor amnesia” describes the most rudimentary form of this habituation — gross movement and fine motor control. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n“Attentional-intentional
\n amnesia” describes the more complex forms of habituation — emotion,
\nconceptualization\/cognition — observable 3d-person as habits of action
\nand interiorly-feelable pattens of tension identified (mistakenly or
\nonly provisionally) as, “self” — sometimes clinically diagnosed as,
\n“fibromyalgia” and usually, as “ageing”.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nMore primitive than habituation is incompetence — or immaturity.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n“Sensory-motor obliviousness” describes the most rudimentary form of incompetence or immaturity.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“Attentional-intentional
\n obliviousness” describes the more complex forms of incompetence or
\nimmaturity identified (mistakenly or only provisionally) as, “self”.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nClearing
\n up all of these forms of befoulment or incompetence is the proper scope
\n of somatic education — escape from the sense of the gravity of life
\nand the accelerated awakening of and to our own unrealized potentials.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe Ultimate Structure of All Senses of Identity<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nhttp:\/\/lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/somatology-ultimate-structure-of-all.html<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nhttp:\/\/lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/on-fibromyalgia-and-full-spectrum.html<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The three reflexes of stress. discussed by Thomas Hanna in his definitive article on clinical somatic eduction, are emotional reactions. They involve the limbic system — mammalian brain — however much they may also involve the reptilian brain (brain stem). Let’s take this discussion of FM further and deeper. In habituation, the neocortex disengages, leaving … <\/p>\n

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