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*Do I need to use my hands? My hands are so busy.

*How about my nose?

*Chin?

*Eyes? Hips?

*Can I use my feet?

*My feet are made for walking, ‘cause that’s just what they do. What about my elbows?

*Can I get an answer in my lips?

*While we’re on the subject, why do lips quiver?

*What about the back of my neck?

*What’s that back of the neck tingly sensation? That thing is awesome.

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===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Stand up normally.

#Pay attention to your feet.

#Imagine or intend to sit down. Do not actually sit. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how your feet feel. Do they feel grounded, like you’re anchored to the ground by your heels? Do they feel energetic, like moving your feet around or wiggling your toes?

*A positive response. In a positive response, the sensation in your feet will move towards your toes, encouraging you to move.

*A negative response. In a negative response, the sensation in your feet will move towards your heel, encouraging you to stay in place.

===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Pay attention to your nose.

#Imagine or intend to drink water. Do not actually drink. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how your nose feels. Does it feel pulled towards the water you intend to drink? Does it feel pulled back, away?

*A positive response. In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action or pulled forwards if the action does not have a particular direction.

*A negative response. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled away from performing the action or pulled backwards if the action does not have a particular direction.

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===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Sit up or stand up normally.

#Pay attention to your abdomen.

#Imagine or intend to drink a glass of water. Do not actually drink a glass of water. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how your abdomen feels. Do you feel a contraction? Is the contraction downward and expansive or upward and compressive?

#Are you noticing any sensations in your chest, throat, or mouth?

*A baseline positive response. In a positive response, the sensation in your abdomen will feel downward and expansive, and may extend to your mouth, neck and chest, like it wants you to pull food inside you, scarfing it down.

*A baseline negative response. In a negative response, the sensation in your abdomen will feel upward and contractive, and may extend to your mouth, neck, and chest, like it wants you to vomit.

===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Pay attention to your eyes.

#Imagine or intend to drink water. Do not actually drink. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how your eyes feel. Do they feel pulled towards the water you intend to drink? Do they feel pulled away to the side?

*A positive response. In a positive response, your eyes will feel pulled towards performing the action or pulled forwards if the action does not have a particular direction.

*A negative response. In a negative response, your eyes will feel pushed away from performing the action or pushed away to the side if the action does not have a particular direction.

#Pay attention to your tongue.

#Imagine or intend to drink a glass of water. Do not actually drink a glass of water. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how your tongue feels. Do you feel it lightly pulled in a particular way? Is it contracting backward or curving up and being pulled forward?

*A baseline positive response. In a positive response, the sensation in your tongue will feel curved upward and pulled outwards.

*A baseline negative response. In a negative response, the sensation in your tongue will feel compressed backwards, and may extend to a weak gag reflex.

===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Pay attention to that same subtle sensation in your arm that you felt in your hand. Where in your arm do you feel it, specifically?

#Imagine or intend to drink water. Do not actually drink. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

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*A positive response. In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action.

*A negative response. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled away from performing the action.

===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Pay attention to the back of your neck.

#Imagine or intend to drink water. Do not actually drink. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how the back of your neck feels. Does it feel tingly and relaxing? Does it feel squeezed stiff?

===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Pay attention to your lower back, just above your buttocks.

#Imagine or intend to drink water. Do not actually drink. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how your lower back feels. Does it feel relaxed and directed towards the action? Does it feel squeezed stiff and directed away from the action?

*A positive response. In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action.

*A negative response. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled away from performing the action. There will also be a clenching sensation.

===Lesson: Finding and Using the Sensations===

#Pay attention to that same subtle sensation in your upper leg that you felt in your hand. Where in your leg do you feel it, specifically?

#Imagine or intend to drink water. Do not actually drink. This is a query. You are asking your body a question.

#Notice how the sensations and contractions in your leg moved. In what way did it move?

*A positive response. In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action, and you will feel pulled downward behind your leg, towards bending your knee.

*A negative response. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled away from performing the action, and you will feel an upward pull behind your leg, towards straightening your knee.

===A Handy Recap===

*Your hands aren’t the only areas that you can use to get information from your body. There are many situations in which another body part might be more convenient or feel more natural to use to get information from your body.

*If a sensation is confusing, it’s likely that your internal systems don’t have an answer for you yet.

*The encouragement or discouragement information you receive is the same throughout your body. You aren’t asking different parts of your body questions. The same answers will be returned in every part of your body.

===Facial Responses===

*Sensations in the face all feel like a tightness or drawing of facial muscles.

*Cheek, forehead, chin, throat, lips: In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action or pulled forwards if the action does not have a particular direction. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled away from performing the action or pulled backwards if the action does not have a particular direction.

*Lips: In a positive response, if your lips are not closed, a lip quiver will likely occur.

===Abdominal Responses===

*Abdomen: In a positive response, the sensation will feel downward and expansive, and may extend to your mouth, neck and chest, like it wants you to pull food inside you, scarfing it down. In a negative response, the sensation will feel upward and contractive, and may extend to your mouth, neck, and chest, like it wants you to vomit.

*A negative response in your abdomen is a very weak version of the vomit reflex, so try not to use it very often, as your body will not like that

===Arm Responses===

*You can run queries using any part of your arm, or your whole arm.  

*Arm: In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled away from performing the action.

===Other Upper Body Responses===

*Back of head, back of your neck, shoulders, upper back, middle back: In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel stiffened and compressed towards your spine, reducing mobility.

*Back of your neck: A positive response will feel tingly and pleasurable.

*Overbust, underbust, sides: Only provides directional information towards or away from your intended action.

*Bust: Responses appear to occur in other areas of the torso rather than in muscles within the bust itself. Responses can appear in your back directly behind your bust, or to the side of the bust, helping to direct where your breast is pointing.

===Pelvic Responses===

*Lower Back: In a positive response, it will feel pulled towards performing the action. In a negative response, it will feel pulled away from performing the action and you will get a stiffening, compression sensation around your spine.

*Hips: Only provides directional information towards or away from your intended action.

*Buttocks, groin, pelvis: In a positive response, it will feel pulled towards performing the action. In a negative response, it will feel pulled away from performing the action and you will get a clenching sensation.

===Leg Responses===

*You can run queries using any part of your leg, or your whole leg, though your whole leg may be more difficult to get working.  

*Legs: In a positive response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled towards performing the action, and you will feel pulled downward behind your leg, towards bending your knee. In a negative response, the part you are focusing on will feel pulled away from performing the action, and you will feel an upward pull behind your leg, towards straightening your knee.

===Wide-Area Responses===

*Wider areas are more difficult to get responses from. You will have to go through rebuilds to adapt to handle larger areas.

*Responses in wide areas produce the same responses that the smaller areas that they overlap produce.

*With so many responses occurring simultaneously thought your body, it’s hard to differentiate or pay attention to any one specific instruction.

===Dual Wielding===

*It is very difficult to get sensations in both hands working simultaneously. It tends to require a lot of rebuilds.  

*The difficulty of using both hands simultaneously (dual wielding) is likely due to the extreme amount of neural tissue devoted to feeling and moving your hands.