I think a lot of explanations ground on somatic components of thought because (a) they’re so neglected and (b) they’re comparatively hard to mess up or take metaphorically.
Unfortunately many good manuals for how to do somatic mindfulness don’t know how to connect it to anything else, so verbal centers never really get online. I think Qigong has this problem, & the Vipassana I’ve seen too.
Feldenkrais seems to have a model for how to link somatics and stories, but no idea how to teach it, so I had to reinvent it myself to get full value out of his exercises, and I suspect he mostly didn’t do it dynamically. Tracking breath/posture *while* going through other stuff is really, really helpful.
To me it appears that there are a bunch of different strains of people that care about somantic mindfulness and also connect it to the verbal centers. It seems however that most people who know a lot about somatics don’t write.
Communities that I like for their high epistemic hygine that do care about somatic mindfulness are the Radical Honesty community and the community around Danis Bois.
Other communities that I have less contact with would be Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Bodywork and the Grinberg methode.
I think a lot of explanations ground on somatic components of thought because (a) they’re so neglected and (b) they’re comparatively hard to mess up or take metaphorically.
Unfortunately many good manuals for how to do somatic mindfulness don’t know how to connect it to anything else, so verbal centers never really get online. I think Qigong has this problem, & the Vipassana I’ve seen too.
Feldenkrais seems to have a model for how to link somatics and stories, but no idea how to teach it, so I had to reinvent it myself to get full value out of his exercises, and I suspect he mostly didn’t do it dynamically. Tracking breath/posture *while* going through other stuff is really, really helpful.
To me it appears that there are a bunch of different strains of people that care about somantic mindfulness and also connect it to the verbal centers. It seems however that most people who know a lot about somatics don’t write.
Communities that I like for their high epistemic hygine that do care about somatic mindfulness are the Radical Honesty community and the community around Danis Bois.
Other communities that I have less contact with would be Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Bodywork and the Grinberg methode.
Read Reggie ray “touching enlightenment with the body”