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#embodied projections and identifications are “how animals speak”
similar to #EmotionalContagion dynamics
these are adaptive, high speed signals that travel “faster” than thoughts
remember: cortex slows
similar to #EmotionalContagion dynamics
these are adaptive, high speed signals that travel “faster” than thoughts
remember: cortex slows
They are really “embodied action patterns”
- hominid mammals in groups
- alive biology on Earth
Bring a legacy of “ancient wisdom” re:
- how to stay alive
- how to live in groups
Add modern context, social media
… but no “animal” has been removed from us b/c we “think”
- hominid mammals in groups
- alive biology on Earth
Bring a legacy of “ancient wisdom” re:
- how to stay alive
- how to live in groups
Add modern context, social media
… but no “animal” has been removed from us b/c we “think”
The polyvagal ppl (I am not one) categorize these behaviors along fight-flight-freeze-fawn-blah-blah
It’s right in that frame
I personally prefer Panksepp
+ modern society adaptations
Framed in culture, family, geography
… this is “unconscious” to “the rational mind”
It’s right in that frame
I personally prefer Panksepp
+ modern society adaptations
Framed in culture, family, geography
… this is “unconscious” to “the rational mind”
For the “transference” to “work” that means
- affective, non-conscious
- primitive, relational
- chaotic, unsafe
- distressing, unsettling
#feelings
Are “integrated” aka
- felt
- experienced
- mentalized
- embodied
- made conscious
- slowed down
Not with “thoughts”
- affective, non-conscious
- primitive, relational
- chaotic, unsafe
- distressing, unsettling
#feelings
Are “integrated” aka
- felt
- experienced
- mentalized
- embodied
- made conscious
- slowed down
Not with “thoughts”
For this to occur in a therapeutic dyad
some combination of all these instruments, in dynamic symphony
- differentiating
- joining
- asserting
- listening
- waiting
- speaking
all #embodied
some combination of all these instruments, in dynamic symphony
- differentiating
- joining
- asserting
- listening
- waiting
- speaking
all #embodied
#embodied projective dynamics are akin to fluid dynamics, or sometimes what is seen in gravitational fields
Quick primer
- diffuse
- rigid
- motile
- dense
Are examples of descriptors of #embodiment
Actually layers and layers of different qualities of your own embodiment
Quick primer
- diffuse
- rigid
- motile
- dense
Are examples of descriptors of #embodiment
Actually layers and layers of different qualities of your own embodiment
2/ when a person identifies themselves through #concepts they prize, hoard & claim them “as theirs”
and will sometimes “die for them”
b/c of the mechanism of identification is #conceptual
and will sometimes “die for them”
b/c of the mechanism of identification is #conceptual
with #somatic #differentiation comes an internal network of self-experience that gives one access to a felt sense of #emergence
where harmonies, symphonies, waves, charges, compressions, tightens
of #experience occur
where harmonies, symphonies, waves, charges, compressions, tightens
of #experience occur
I know there is concern with "stored emotions in the body" language
I share that concern
but let's unpack what this means ...
I share that concern
but let's unpack what this means ...
"Liquid and Solid #Brains: Mapping the #Cognition Space"
Today's SFI Seminar by Ext Prof @ricard_sole, streaming now — follow this 🧵 for highlights:
Today's SFI Seminar by Ext Prof @ricard_sole, streaming now — follow this 🧵 for highlights:
"Why #brains? Brains are very costly...it seems like they are not a very good idea to bring complex cognition to a #biosphere that just needs simple replicators."
"I also want to explore the problem of #consciousness, which is around all the time..."
@ricard_sole
"I also want to explore the problem of #consciousness, which is around all the time..."
@ricard_sole
Two different views of #evolution:
- Stephen Jay Gould and an emphasis on #contingency
- Simon Conway Morris/Pere Albach and an emphasis on #constraints and #convergence
--> "Replay the tape with different results vs. 'the logic of monsters' & 'life's solution'"
- Stephen Jay Gould and an emphasis on #contingency
- Simon Conway Morris/Pere Albach and an emphasis on #constraints and #convergence
--> "Replay the tape with different results vs. 'the logic of monsters' & 'life's solution'"
Quick 🧵: Now that the anecdotes and the sciences have aligned to confirm that #WhiteSupremacy is ✨in fact✨ an #embodied experience,
I’ve been revisiting my own hesitancies around blindly trusting all-White, all-cisgendered male leadership teams of humanitarian organizations.
I’ve been revisiting my own hesitancies around blindly trusting all-White, all-cisgendered male leadership teams of humanitarian organizations.
2/5 I’m reminded that it takes muscle memory— not mere thinking— to see issues of inequity when they pop up in systems.
When you’ve lived in a body that’s so rarely minoritized/ marginalized (i.e., White and cisgendered male), it’s easy and common for you to overlook inequity.
When you’ve lived in a body that’s so rarely minoritized/ marginalized (i.e., White and cisgendered male), it’s easy and common for you to overlook inequity.
3/5 This is uncomfortable to hear, but it’s true.
We’re learning more and more that #WhiteSupremacy is not— at its core— a matter of ideas.
It’s a matter of the patterned responses to the “Other” that are embodied in folks’ core beliefs, emotions and knee-jerk social reactions.
We’re learning more and more that #WhiteSupremacy is not— at its core— a matter of ideas.
It’s a matter of the patterned responses to the “Other” that are embodied in folks’ core beliefs, emotions and knee-jerk social reactions.
Wow that's the latest in innovative and unique ways to do #scicomm and raise awareness about #ClimateChange! :)
“To understand how infants come to be able to control the forceful interactions of their bodies with their environment is to gain insight into the nature of cognitive processes as they emerge.” - Port & van Gelder (1995) about Esther Thelen’s perspective on human development
Thelen (1995): “What infants do in everyday life, what they perceive, how they act, and what they remember are joined seamlessly to how they think. ...
“Since a major developmental task of #infancy is gaining control of the body, #cognition is thus #embodied as its origins deal with #actions of the #body in the world.” - Esther Thelen (1995)
