The Body’s Responses: Difference between revisions

==Facial Responses==

There are many areas of the face that each provide their own responses to intended actions. They all feel like a tightness or drawing of facial muscles.

===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.

*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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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.

==Eye Responses==

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===Practice: Asking Questions===

*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.

==Tongue Responses==

==Pelvic Responses==

Your pelvis has several areas that can provide behavior directing responses. You are likely going to want to be standing while first learning these queries.

#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?

===Practice: Asking Questions===

Three areas that all result in a clenching response when the response is negative are the buttocks, groin, and the wider area of the pelvis.

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| footer_background = #e8e9ea | footer_align = center | footer = Positive (green, left) and negative (red, right) groin and pelvis directing sensation locations when intending to perform an action.

| image1 = Pelvis Directing - Buttocks.png | caption1 = Buttocks

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==Leg Responses==

Your leg can provide directional sensations and different types of responses in positive and negative situations. This works on an individual part level and together as a whole.

#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?

===Practice: Asking Questions===

*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.

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| image1 = Leg Directing - Knee.png      | caption1 = Knee

| image2 = Leg Directing - Lower Leg.png | caption2 = Lower leg

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When starting out, every body part that you try to get a response from should be a small area. That’s why I’ve focused on a knee or a single hand, rather than a wider area. It takes practice and rebuilds to get larger areas to respond together when you put your attention on them. However, you can get them working. Below is a diagram of the responses from attending to an entire leg simultaneously. You can try to get it working if you’re interested and find that it might be useful for you. Consider this a steppingstone to the areas in the following sections that are much wider and more difficult.

==Wide-Area Responses==

==Dual Wielding==

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.