The Body’s Responses: Difference between revisions

*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.

However, the hands aren’t the only areas that you can use to get information from your body. The rest of this chapter will show you how to get information from every other part of your body. The encouragement or discouragement, yes or no, 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. Some body parts will be more related to whatever action you are asking about, such as your hands to eat and your feet to walk. In those situations, they may be more convenient and possibly more useful than the simple yes or no you get from an unrelated body part.

When you learn the sensations for each part of your body, try them for yourself. Mix it up. Compare, contrast, and have fun with it. If you notice anything odd, log on to my forum and post your results. I’m dying to hear about all your experiences with it.

Under normal circumstances, you won’t want to use this area for querying your body, as the negative response is a very weak version of the vomit reflex. However, for the one possible benefit to using this area excessively, please see Rapid-fire Grocery Querying.

There are many areas on your upper body that each provide their own responses to intended actions. The most useful one is the back of your neck. The tingly sensation in the back of your neck tends to be pleasurable and is useful if you want to reward yourself for taking care of your body.

Even though my abilities have expanded to attend to wide areas of my body simultaneously for receiving body communication responses, I still couldn’t attend to responses in both of my hands at the same time until very recently. It is very difficult to get working, requiring many rebuilds. Perhaps you can get it working for yourself. Perhaps not. Regardless, this difficulty to get both hands to work for responses simultaneously is likely natural. The reason that it’s so difficult to attend to body directing responses in both hands simultaneously becomes apparent when you look at sensory and motor homunculi. These homunculi are sculpted representations of the amount of neural tissue in the sensory and motor cortexes of your brain devoted to sensing and controlling each area of your body, respectively.  

Look at how huge the hands are in those sculptures. That’s the amount of neural tissue devoted to your hands. Since we humans use our hands so much and in such complex ways, the human brain devotes a lot of real estate to sensations from hands and the ability to make hands move. Attention on one hand is focused. Your body can easily communicate with you through that focused attention, directing your hand. However, when your attention is spread to both hands, it can get a bit fuzzy. Additionally, that attention on receiving body communication responses in both hands simultaneously can get problematic fast. It may not respond for you at all, or it may feel a bit overwhelming. Give adapting to it a shot, if you think it may be useful for you, but be prepared for rebuilds throughout the adaptation process.

===A Handy Recap===

===Foot Responses===

===Facial Responses===

===Abdominal Responses===

===Eye Responses===

===Tongue Responses===

===Arm Responses===

===Other Upper Body Responses===

===Pelvic Responses===

===Leg Responses===

===Wide-Area Responses===

===Dual Wielding===