{"id":1371,"date":"2014-05-04T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/hannah-and-the-limbic-system-a-study-of-stormy-weather\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T22:13:00","slug":"hannah-and-the-limbic-system-a-study-of-stormy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/hannah-and-the-limbic-system-a-study-of-stormy-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah and the Limbic System | a Study of Stormy Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that somatic education exercises *temporarily* ease emotional patterns, but that unless the underlying structure of intent (held way of being) is released, emotional patterns (moods, readiness for reactivity) seem to return.&nbsp; Moreover, those emotional patterns may also seem to get worse (intensify) as they get flushed up to voluntary awareness, before getting better, just as soreness sometimes occurs after HSE (<a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/HSEdescription.htm\">Hanna Somatic Education<\/a>) sessions.<\/p>\n<p>I, personally, have benefitted from the application of principles of somatic education, applied in adapted ways to &#8220;the inner being&#8221; (subjective self-identity), and have been getting neuro-musculo-skeletal changes that I never dreamed I needed or were possible and which did not occur when doing somatic explorations in those very areas and with the intention to relieve some discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>The limbic system (whom we shall now identify as, &#8220;Hannah&#8221;) activates all kinds of activity patterns when she gets upset, not just in the Autonomic nervous system, but also in the Central (which involves sensation and movement).&nbsp; And if she&#8217;s stuck in an upset state, so is everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>The limbic system is largely tied to memory, the long-term repository of which is the cerebellum, feeling and action being linked together.&nbsp; There ain&#8217;t all those ridges and folds for nothin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also tied to the reptilian and vegetative activation-response systems.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine the havoc Hannah can wreak if she gets upset.&nbsp; (They named a hurricane after her.)<\/p>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s good to be had by working in the zone that links the limbic system with memory, and that involves acts of attention and intention, inwardly.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a lilttle like drilling for oil, and certain techniques help.<\/p>\n<div>Add your comment &#8212; what you would like to ask or tell.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that somatic education exercises *temporarily* ease emotional patterns, but that unless the underlying structure of intent (held way of being) is released, emotional patterns (moods, readiness for reactivity) seem to return.&nbsp; Moreover, those emotional patterns may also seem to get worse (intensify) as they get flushed up to voluntary awareness, before getting better, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/hannah-and-the-limbic-system-a-study-of-stormy-weather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hannah and the Limbic System | a Study of Stormy Weather&#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-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","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=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}