{"id":1524,"date":"2011-01-11T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/an-advance-of-somatic-education-technique-the-diamond-penetration-technique-superpandiculation\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T20:49:00","slug":"an-advance-of-somatic-education-technique-the-diamond-penetration-technique-superpandiculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/an-advance-of-somatic-education-technique-the-diamond-penetration-technique-superpandiculation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Advance of Somatic Education Technique | The Diamond Penetration Technique (SuperPandiculation)"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAN BE APPLIED TO ANYTHING YOU SEE AT RIGHT, FOR ENHANCED BENEFIT <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Diamond Penetration Maneuver<\/span> is a way to get more done with less effort<\/b> and less time<\/i>, in clinical sessions of Hanna somatic education(R)<\/a> and with somatic exercises.  The maneuver enhances (or potentizes) pandiculation (“The Omni-yawn”) technique<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this entry, you also have instruction for Emotional SuperPandiculation<\/b>, a technique for freeing emotions.  Negative emotions are always states of contraction, actual contraction, of the musculature.<\/span><\/span><\/span> However, they’re organized differently that the motor behaviors of movement, so you use a slight diff<\/span><\/span>erence of technique, given below.  You can use the same technique to dissolve pains that you don’t know how to move, to re-create.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Onward. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In his original instruction to us, his students of his 1990 Clinical Somatic Education training, Thomas Hanna showed us how to use The Pandicular Response<\/a> to free people from the grip of The Landau Reaction, which tightens the back\/posterior side of the body and, when excessively activated for long periods of time, causes back pain<\/a>, sciatica<\/a>, tight shoulders and tension headaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Lesson One (Green Light lesson) for Landau Reaction, he showed us how to coach our client through a Whole-body yawn (pandicular maneuver), beginning with a lifting action of one leg and its opposite shoulder, arm and hand, and head, as in the video, below — to lower them by stages in steps of relaxation, with a mini-in-breath with each mini-lift . . . . . before lowering some more.<\/p>\n

First, the video, so you know for sure the maneuver to which I refer. <\/p>\n

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I have found that “staged” or “stepped” relaxation can be made more powerful by a technique that I have named, “The Diamond Penetration” maneuver (or SuperPandiculation).  The reason I have named it The Diamond Penetration Technique (like drilling through rock with a diamond bit) will become clear to you once you start doing it.  For now, I say that uses The Power of Recognition, as I have described it in the linked article, “Attention is a Catalyst<\/a>“, to amplify pandiculation, or any other therapeutic or educational technique, for that matter.  Assisted Pandiculation is accelerated learning, and learning involves recognition and development, based upon memory.  Memory, learning, recognition,  function and development are five development stages of a single function.  There’s one more.<\/p>\n

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  1. Memory — the ground function, memory — persistence of pattern, memory<\/li>\n
  2. Learning — modification of the ground function into a durable pattern of memory<\/li>\n
  3. Recognition — the closely approximate match of some memory with an experience happening now<\/li>\n
  4. Function — initiation of action, memory activated and applied to this moment<\/li>\n
  5. Integration — facility to move freely and functionally among different remembered patterns<\/li>\n
  6. Evolution — expansion of attention beyond both memory and the moment — the space of emergence of newness, for patterns newly emerging into the moment, to be remembered into existence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Take the starting initials of each, and you get MLRFIE!  Well, that’s as far as we’ll go with that one, folks — at least for now.  We’ll come back to that strange, unpronounceable acronym, later (or not).<\/p>\n

    In his demonstrations to us, Thomas Hanna had the person on the table lower the leg part way, then lift a bit, then lower some more, repeating by stages, to complete rest.  He even commented that that same maneuver was what Joe Montana did, spontaneously, after his back surgery and commented ruefully about to what the rapid improvement was attributed — namely, surgery and physical therapy!<\/p>\n

    Here’s the “inside” of that maneuver:  The lifting action produces a sensation.  By re-lifting after lowering part way, the client re-locates the sensation<\/b><\/u> of lifting (contracting the muscles of lifting the leg).  To re-locate the sensation activates the power of recognition<\/b>, which is central to all learning.  (No recognition — no learning.)<\/i><\/p>\n

    That’s the central principle of The Diamond Penetration Technique.  <\/i>I give detailed instructions, below.<\/p>\n

    Here <\/i>are the advantages of using The Diamond Penetration Technique.  It:<\/p>\n

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    1. rapidly penetrates Sensory-Motor Amnesia <\/li>\n
    2. rapidly awakens sensory awareness and motor control that has never been awake, before (penetrates Sensory-Motor Obliviousness)<\/li>\n
    3. speeds integration of multiple “movement elements” into a single coordinated action<\/li>\n
    4. increases the result of a single pandiculation — relaxation and control<\/li>\n
    5. decreases the number of repetitions needed for pandiculation to get the desired result<\/li>\n
    6. shortens the time needed to get a good result from a somatic exercise lesson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Obviously, these benefits are interrelated and just “a tiny bit” useful when working to transform yourself<\/b>.<\/p>\n

      I have elaborated that principle into a very powerful technique, “Diamond Penetration” or SuperPandiculation.  Very powerful.  Clinical practitioners can apply this technique to assisted pandiculation maneuvers; clients can apply it to somatic exercises, and to free-form pandiculations you may do to work out pains or restrictions for which no somatic exercise currently exists.<\/i><\/p>\n

      I have developed several increasingly powerful variations of The Diamond Penetration Technique, which I  outline, here.<\/p>\n