Somatics

Body awareness and embodiment: interoception, tension, posture, breath, nervous system, bodywork

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  3. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 163 posters here
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  6. AskYatharth — trusted by 137 posters here
  7. visakanv — trusted by 145 posters here
  8. RichDecibels — trusted by 128 posters here
  9. christineist — trusted by 113 posters here
  10. metaLulie — trusted by 99 posters here
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  1. somatically aware computer usage, phenomenon #1: when i have copied something and haven't pasted it yet, i can sense that in my body (bashu_thanks) — 51 likes
  2. i'm gonna explain this a bit. there is a "secret language" spoken by children and animals that uses the whole body as a way to send signals, this language is nonverbal and vibes-based, it's… (slimepriestess) — 38 likes
  3. to me the most interesting part of the massage / knot discourse so far is you can clearly tell there's a type of guy (gender-neutral) who is made wildly uncomfortable by the idea that massage might… (QiaochuYuan) — 36 likes
  4. rationalists don't get woo because they don't goddamn try the exercises (woo is basically a series of exercises u do w/ your body) b/c they have a blindspot around their body, they're not used to… (metaLulie) — 32 likes
  5. turns out it’s possible to read emotions of someone in a high amount of detail (including associated imagery) and what they’re aware ofand what their physical intentions are (like where they’re… (metaLulie) — 32 likes
  6. @sashachapin At this point I dont even consider lots of the body stuff even woo. Ive just accepted that its language that works to describe the phenomenal frame better than medical/psychological… (myceliummage) — 30 likes
  7. at some point in my childhood in cold upstate new york, i remember having the thought "i just need to let the cold into my bones". then, the cold stopped feeling like an imposition, i stopped… (qorprate) — 30 likes
  8. I don’t know if this study will replicate…but I’ve long believed humans have a basic need for synchronization. It’s available through team sports, dancing (especially if everyone is dancing the same… (eshear) — 30 likes
  9. *slaps roof of muscle tension* this bad boy can fit so much unacknowledged grief in it (RichDecibels) — 29 likes
  10. me, realizing my body's signals are there to provide information, not to be smothered https://t.co/iZErGJiNsB (goblinodds) — 29 likes
  11. I'm going to try to explain Alexander Technique using an idea from computer science: functions I am not a dev so forgive any mistakes a function is a separate chunk of reusable code that is called… (m_ashcroft) — 28 likes
  12. I often dream about starting a 21st century gymnasium, with a full gym, multi use rooms for movement practices like yoga, Qigong, and martial arts. Offices where people can get therapy, coaching,… (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  13. pretty messed up that we were taught to “sit still at your desk” for 8hr/day as kids and, for bodies, that instruction reliably creates chronic pain. continuous movement is such a HUGE piece of what… (relic_radiation) — 28 likes
  14. me: I can never get motivated to work out tarot card drawn for body: Say Yes me: that's dumb gf: maybe try saying yes to anything your body asks for a week? body: *starts vibrating with intention,… (_brentbaum) — 28 likes
  15. imo: "if i listened to my body i would only eat fast food" is a v narrow band of listening. it's really only listening to the cravings, which is like only listening to someone when they're yelling.… (visakanv) — 28 likes
  16. there's so much personality in how little humans move that it becomes obvious that the suppression of movement is depersonalizing (visakanv) — 28 likes
  17. fr it’s been STRIKING me lately how many of the sounds I hear in a given day are sounds that were specifically chosen because they put the human body in a state of panic-coded alert attentiveness… (the_wilderless) — 27 likes
  18. hey remember how we went to school where we spent 8 hours a day for over a decade having what our bodies could do completely under the control of authority figures boy i wonder if that had any… (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  19. @metaLulie @moissanist Essentially, the muscular system (in particular smooth muscles & fascia, and in particular VSMCs) holds tension as a way to restrict the patterns of the neural system.… (johnsonmxe) — 26 likes
  20. next time you're on mdma and your jaw is clenching, consider the possibility that is not a "side effect" but an invitation into a somatic process (RichDecibels) — 26 likes
  21. Fascinating take on extending somatic awareness into tools / machine interfaces-- to the extent that this forklift driver has a better awareness of the truck's battery charge than their own hunger!… (SarahAMcManus) — 26 likes
  22. It's unlikely that it's genetics. It also doesn't matter what caused it. That's narcissistic masturbation archeology. What matters is that there is a solution: you must once again become an embodied… (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  23. through the hand, he could tell how grounded someone’s posture was in their *hips* this isn’t the only story i have of someone exhibiting high levels of sensitivity but it’s one of the most extreme.… (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  24. slowly painstakingly learning that if i feel overwhelmed by having like 15 things on my plate i can literally just lie down and not-look-at-a-screen and wait - for over an hour if necessary - until… (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  25. Energy management is more important than time management; you will always run out of energy before you run out of time. A constant background sense of urgency is incredibly draining. Manage energy… (RomeoStevens76) — 25 likes
  26. PSA: If you keep thinking about it, write it down, set an alarm, emotionally process it (somatically, not narratively), make a decision. Looping is a sign of something that doesn't fit in working… (RomeoStevens76) — 25 likes
  27. I'm basically at the point where I don't believe there are any biochemical functions of the body that are not, in principle, controllable by conscious intention and awareness (chercher_ai) — 25 likes
  28. congratulations, you've placed two layers of indirection between yourself and an experience you're having ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this is supposed to help how? the real question is what being a failure feels like… (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  29. Quick model of jhanaThe vasomuscular system (“tension”) acts to collapse uncertainty, set context & stabilize local neural patterns. Actions of this system typically feel bad. But you can also… (johnsonmxe) — 25 likes
  30. one of the more powerful questions i asked claude about my journals:if i were a character in a novel, and this journal were the novel, what would be obvious to the reader but not to the… (tasshinfogleman) — 25 likes
  31. What I think may not be obvious about vasocomputation is that this is a muscle, and some of it is semi-permanently clenched (“latched”), and you would feel ~10x better if it wasn’tBut there is not a… (johnsonmxe) — 25 likes
  32. 6/ It’s forced me to conclude that either there’s some spooky social interaction medium we don’t understand (“energy”)OR ppl are *much* more sensitive to barely perceptible fluctuations in others’… (TylerAlterman) — 24 likes
  33. chronic low energy update: got a heart rate monitor, learned something. I'm sitting at 90bpm for most of the day, every day. If I reduce to ~60bpm (through cutting coffee, adding cbd, and regular… (_brentbaum) — 24 likes
  34. small talk is nervous system coregulation 🤫 (RichDecibels) — 24 likes
  35. at some point my sense of self shifted to my heart, but I don't know when this happened I just realised that it wasn't my head any more and that it hadn't been for a while (m_ashcroft) — 24 likes
  36. yesterday I graduated PT :) (christineist) — 24 likes
  37. wait wth i asked claude if he noticed any patterns in my oura data vs the health data i've been logging and he's like (my summary) "oh sure your HRV drops >20% from baseline a day or two before… (goblinodds) — 24 likes
  38. communing with my body and listening to its timeless ineffable wisdom like “it’s time to pee” and “what if we had some water” (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  39. Cigarettes are back in fashion so I just want to say, as a former pack-a-day smoker for 20 yrs: They make you smarter, thinner and they really do look cool. But they also char yr throat, squeeze yr… (vividvoid) — 23 likes
  40. I often had horrible grogginess when waking up for most of my life. Then, a few years ago, I learned about electrolyte balance and dehydration and started having water or watered down orange juice… (RomeoStevens76) — 23 likes
  41. Great thread. My sense is the basic (smooth muscle) logic of the gut was copied and repurposed to “digest” thoughts. These systems are still linked & if you update your mental priors via… (johnsonmxe) — 23 likes
  42. It's unbelievable how much healthier I am since moving out of that house and into the van. I just keep marveling at it. I didn't know I could feel this good 🥹 (vividvoid) — 23 likes
  43. woah woah. my mythosomatics teacher (Josh Schrei) expects that in 10-20 years, we’ll see a cultural shift *away* from tech and phones, simply because the present state is “not somatically tenable”… (relic_radiation) — 23 likes
  44. #2 When i'm on a really good video call and then the video or audio gets suddenly choppy, my breath gets choppy too. in the same way. like i'm trying to sync with it (bashu_thanks) — 23 likes
  45. Some kinds of stress are bad for you. But there’s a collection of stresses that seem good for you: exercise, sauna, cold showers, fasting, breathwork. What do they have in common? Acute, full-body,… (eshear) — 23 likes
  46. if you do not feel comfortable with everything in your awareness, your awareness will narrow till you are (AskYatharth) — 22 likes
  47. One reason I got out of knowledge work and into a physical trade was an intuition that I needed embodiment Psychotherapy was the surgery that repaired my Cartesian wound; contracting was the… (vividvoid) — 22 likes
  48. would be a real shame if you were trained to override your innate embodied intelligence in favour of respecting the demands & needs of arbitrary authorities (RichDecibels) — 22 likes
  49. hey you’re probably looking at your phone right now. that’s cool you might feel quite stressed though if you look at your phone while widening your peripheral vision and noticing the sounds in your… (m_ashcroft) — 22 likes
  50. these stupid fucking prism glasses have honestly changed my life forever I don't have to look down at my phone or books anymore and my posture is getting better https://t.co/tsaAiIVdpo (dschorno) — 22 likes

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