Full-Spectrum Somatics - Education and Therapeutics

Life is a Dynamic Movement between Entropy and Neg-entropy.

The tendency of latent potentials to activate,
and thereby expend themselves,
physicists call the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics:
The Law of Entropy.

"latent potentials" means "what's possible"
"activate" means "becomes actual"
"expend" means "give ones gifts"
"Entropy" is the relative amount of order or disorder
characterizing a living (or active) system.

The movement from disorder to disorder
characterizes the down-hill slope
that makes things run.

Things run down.

Meaning.

They move from no-function
to function
to non-function.

UNLESS.

A peculiar phenomenon known as neg-entropy
comes into play.

Neg-entropy is emergent
like the light of the Sun is emergent from the Sun.

It is the formation of living (active) functions
in existence
by means of the gathering and organizing
of the forces of existence
into behaviors of some duration (durability).

It exists in both living and non-living realms.

It's just that the non-living realms
are running a downhill slope,
while the living realms
are bringing to life
newly emergent functions.

One of those newly emergent functions
is to make non-living realms
run uphill,
going from less active (less functional)
to more active (more functional).

In the non-living or inanimate realms
we call that
Technology.

Another of those newly emergent functions
is to make the living realms
run uphill longer and further
going from active (functional) in some ways
into active in more ways.

Neg-entropy
is that function.

In the living or animate realms,
we call the first stage of increasing entropy
Maturation
and we call the second stage of increasing entropy
Evolution.

In both cases, personal abilities emerge
we put energy into them
and we expend ourselves in our developing potentials.

Immaturity is a lower-entropy level.
As immaturity matures,
latent personal abilities emerge
dispensing the energies of the being
among those abilities.

Maturity is a higher-entropy level.
There are more ways to function
and more functions active
more ways to dispense our energies
and more dispersion of them.

Here's where the trick of the Neg-entropists comes in:
how to recover what we have lost to entropy,
how to recover from the scattering of our energies.

THE QUANDARY:
As functions awaken, energies or potentials disperse.
There's a limit to how much attention a person can give
to conditions at any moment.
Our functional capacity is limited.
"Ya can only get so much done in a day."

THE UPGRADE
Reversing the increase of entropy.
Clean-up.

First step:
Identify points of friction in life,
grounded in memories.

Abilities that worked for us in the past
may not apply or fit well to present conditions.
That poor fit creates friction.
That poor fit is based in our memory of how things
used to work, but no longer do, exactly.
Friction.

Dissolve the grip of those memories,
make room for something new and better-fitting:
dissolve the friction.
Less friction, less wasted effort.
That applies to "internal contractions" (broken integrity).

Reclaim and recycle our capacity for
attending, intending, remembering and imagining
taken up by old, not such good ways of doing and being,
anymore.

Second step:
Apply that reclaimed and recycled capacity
to current projects.

"Current projects" means "creative activities".

Attention has the peculiar property that
the more you look,
the more you see
(or hear, or feel).

That's emergence.

And the more coherent the looking
("coherent" means "having it together",
more signal, less noise)
the more likely it is that something coherent will emerge
from the inchoate mass of latent potentials.

Something new emerges.

That's neg-entropy in action, recovering energy and attention,
then inducing new things emerging in the new-again movement toward higher entropy -- life occurring.

Another word for coherence is, integrity.
Another name for neg-entropy is, newness.

Entropy is the activating of potentials and expending of resources;
neg-entropy is the integration of potentials,
into simplified, larger wholes in patterns of organization
and the reclaiming and conserving of resources.

Living and evolving species need and embody
both entropy and neg-entropy.

Too much entropy puts a drag on everything.
Too much neg-entropy may create a sonic boom
of emergence. Might be a bit much.

It's a question of balance.

some rights reserved

The Faith and Freedom Coalition | Orwell was right. What Makes Them TIck?

I recently received a questionnaire (click to see) in the mail from The Faith and Freedom Coalition (see images).

It's an example of how unscrupulous political action distorts the legitimate ways in which the Public Conversation addresses the issues of the day. It represents itself as a survey questionnaire, when it functions as an instrument of propaganda. Legitimate survey takers take great pains to avoid introducing bias into their questions; this questionnaire is blatantly biased from page 1. The Faith and Freedom Coalition dishonestly portray their position (as serving the public good) and that of others (as evil) and they do so as if they had some righteousness. But read their questionnaire! (click image to download and read).

Here's the quandary of the Faith and Freedom Coalition: They're part of a mass sector of human culture who are self-righteous, clever, but essentially primitive thinkers who claim privilege without responsibility to any but themselves and those who share their interests -- the very mood of political partisanship and political gridlock. They are the worst kind of sinners: unrepentent. Very tribe-like. Primitive.

Here's another sample from the so-called, "Judicial Watch" -- another Republican arm bent upon destroying the republic through corruption of our democracy.

We see another act of both dishonesty and hypocrisy, accusing the Obama Administration of exactly what the Republican Party has done, itself: manipulation of the voter rolls to make it more difficult for people to be eligible to vote -- under the deceptive name, "Judicial Watch".

By contrast, here is the Democratic survey questionnaire, issued under the name of Nancy Pelosi, ostensibly for the same purpose. (click image to download and read).

Their quandary is that the world is integrating -- integrating across all kinds of lines, including religious -- and these people don't want to integrate or be integrated. They want to stay encapsulated, in control of what they encapsulate, and to encapsulate more. They want "to rule the world."

I leave it to you to come to mind with a disease that fits that description.

Their quandary is understandable: It's a matter, in some sense, of survival, survival not in a biological sense, but in the sense of identity. It's a matter of Not Having to Change.

And so those of their ilk
seek to heave sway
to disrupt the integration process
presently reshaping the world
and which is the world's hope
in these times of great change.

They use any means at their disposal
including disseminating biasedly partial and distorted information
and accusing those they oppose of things of which they, themselves, are guilty
to manipulate the social conversation toward their own end,
interfering with the public voice (including voting),
and buying exposure time in the public mass communications media
for their self-serving messages
to further the disruption
of what is largely and well underway:
global integration.

Now, we know why.

They declare their "faith" and claim their "freedom"
specifically because they have no faith in cultural developments they don't control;
their freedom is their presumed right
to disrupt others who are more in the forefront of change
than they are.

It is the faith of the fearful
and the freedom of the brat.

It's the strategy of those who have too limited mental capacity to balance multiple values,
too limited mental capacity to incorporate multiple viewpoints,
and too little respect for others to want to do so,
so they take one set of values and viewpoint (their own),
make it the be-all and end-all of their actions
and disregard the rest
in an approach guaranteed to generate imbalances and dysfunction.

Is that how you want the people of our government to conduct themselves?

Mature adults, intead of advancing themselves by tearing others down,
advance themselves and others by bringing everyone up
by conveying their unique contributions
to others who need them
-- a healthy capitalism,
in contrast to the parasitical capitalism
that feeds from the commonwealth disproportionately to its contribution
and causes the rich the get rich and the poor to get poorer.

It's "A Dog Eat Dog World"
is the mindset of more primitive times
and of unscrupulous behavior.

It is the mindset of those who can't do better,
but who still want control.

It is no justification for the abandonment of honor in politics
and it should be recognized for what it is:
immaturity in action.

As to the rest of us, I say,
A Wise General Makes Wise Use of His Resources

The Creative Spiral

The Creative Spiral is not a system of thought, but a series of intentions that integrate into a cohesive network of interconnections that empower intention. Each of the eight stages are intentions known by feeling, that when interconnected by linking together in feeling-attention deepen each other the way the two views of our two eyes combine for depth perception. The Creative Spiral is a sensuous experience of deepening penetration of the movement of attention into the spaces of experience.

Free Your Psoas Walking into the Floor, Walkthrough 2014 2 17

Walking Into the Floor is the third somatic education exercise of the self-relief program, Free Your Psoas. This exercise coordinates and frees the psoas muscles, front of the thighs, and back muscles in movement patterns similar to walking. It integrates the core musculature of the pelvis and trunk as well as the superficial muscles commonly referred to as "core" -- the abdominals.

As with all somatic education programs, this exercise depends for its effectiveness upon good results with the preceding somatic education exercises, Locating the Center of Breathing and Slide and Turn (which distinguishes the psoas muscles from the neighboring and more superficial gluteus minimus and rectus femoris muscles).

You may find it helpful to view this summary walkthrough.

http://youtu.be/s2aRSe_fK4M

his experience

You may preview the entire program at
http://somatics.com/psoas_muscle_pain_treatment.htm

Clinical Somatic Education | a New Discipline in the Field of Health Care
http://www.youtube.com/user/Lawrence9Gold?feature=mhee

Time Fields

First thing:
Time is motion,
nothing more,
nothing else.

We use motion to "measure" time
but "mark time" is a better term.

The cycling of the seasons: a year
The turn of the Earth: a day
The interval between two heartbeats: the "second"
The phasing of the Earth's moon,
The moving second-hand of an analogue clock as it passes fixed marks,
The changing numerical symbols of a digital clock,
The resonant vibration of a cesium clock,
The 1-0-1-0 cycling ("flopping") of a computer-CPU.

Your attention span.

Time is movement.

Gravity is all about movement.
It's described in terms of movement:
32 feet/second per second acceleration.
One second later, it's traveled 32 feet.
Two seconds later, it's traveled 80 feet
Three seconds later, it's traveled 141 feet.

Gravity is all about time. Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces of the Universe.

We can now interpret "reality" in terms of movement.

Reality is conceived in terms of space and time.

The "and" is significant, here.

There is no time without movement,
and therefore,
no time without space.

There is also no space without time.

Only what moves is noticed,
and therefore,
measurable.

Movement is all-relative.

What is not moving, relative to us,
is not noticed by us.

And by "relative to us",
I mean "relative to the "hereness" of the "noticer".

The "noticer" -- that's you --
"hereness" -- that's where you always are,
wherever you are.

No movement, no noticing.
No noticing, no experience of time.

What we are noticing is what is moving, relative to us,
or we, moving relative to him, her, or it.

Memory is the sensor
of time fields.
It provides a means of making time conscious
by providing a way to compare (or measure)
change.
No memory,
to capacity to measure and record change.

Time fields
are strange attractors of attention.

Like gravity wells,
they draw us in
and we move toward them,
captured and captivated
by the experience of them
experienced in us.

They are time warps,
those strangely attractive events
that we experience as the events of life.

We are attracted,
according to our own uniqueness,
to certain kinds of experience
as the unfolding of our entelechy (developmental potential)
the maturation and development of us as unique selves.

Life is time of a special sort:
emergent time.

Life is the effulgent flowering
of the mundane events of our lives.

Each flowering
is strangely attractive,
captivating of our attention . . . . .
for a time.

And then we move on to another
strangely attractive event
that captivates our attention
moment to moment.

What makes entelechy,
the maturation (and emergence) of unique selves,
a special sort of time
is the emergence of it.

It is not yet cylical. Things don't repeat.

The curve of our trajectory is still forming.

It is like the constant, Pi,
the relation of lengths
between the diameter and the circumference
of a circle,

also the relation
between the male (straight)
and the female (curved) --
same thing.

Pi never can completely be defined
because it is infinitely
finely
resolving,
never resolved
always fine-tuning
toward "the sweet spot" of exactness.

They've calculated Pi to some 5,000 digits
last I heard.

And it goes on.

Male and Female

Space is measured in time.

It takes time to determine the two ends of a span
and to measure the distance.
It doesn't happen instantly.

Measuring space requires time.

That's how time and space
are not time"and"space,
but two perspectives
or ways of looking at,
or ways of describing,
the same thing.

That said, time fields are all.

Our sense of time fields
is the sense of the experience of the moment.

Sometimes, time seems to drag;
sometimes, time seems to speed by.

A common observation
is that time -- the years --
is passing more quickly as time passes.

This acceleration of time
is curiously similar
to the acceleration of the expansion
of the Universe.

Life, for animate beings,
is timed by heartbeat,
breath,
digestive
and sleep cycles,
the lunar cycle,
the seasons.

for plants,
by temperature,
light,
climate and weather cycles.

Time fields are all.

Attention rests in time fields
and moves in time fields
and is made of time fields.

Time is the very substance of experience,
its duration,
its substantiality,
its rate of change.

Nothing "has" duration.
Nothing "has" substantiality.

Duration is the substantiality, itself.
No duration, no substantiality.

Movement is appearance.
No movement, no appearance.

No "thing" is changing,
The apparent existence of things
is change, itself.

Changing, or being in a changing circumstance, IS the thing,
even ordinarily regarded.

Time fields are all,
seen from various perspectives,
defined by those various perspectives.
calling into existence
the experience of "things"
by appearing to persist in memory.

New Gentle Spine Waves | for back pain | to elongate your spine

This somatic education exercise progressively develops control of the back muscles, and so relieves the pain caused by excessive tension. It’s relaxing. You should expect to feel changes in how you feel lying down, changes of back curvature, after the second complete practice session. Effects accumulate.

The movements create new muscle/movement memory, which replaces the muscle/movement memory that keeps your back muscles tight and predisposes you to back muscle spasms.
Do the exercise exactly as given, but always work within your comfort zone, as you get more out of it than if you’re cringing from pain or from fear of pain. The key is first to tighten the already-too-tight muscles to get control of them, then to relax in SLOW MOTION to maintain constant awareness of the sensations in the involved muscles.

Disc problems result from too-tight back muscles causing disc compression. | http://somatics.com/wordpress/chronic-back-pain/

Most sciatica comes from a combination of tight back muscles and tight waist muscles (side-tilt), which trap the sciatic nerve roots. | http://somatics.com/sciaticasymptoms-piriformissyndrome.htm

* Relieves tight low back muscle spasms faster than strengthening and stretching
* Relief from low back pain.in days or weeks instead of months or years
* Good preparation for sleep (for insomnia). More on sleep: http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2011/04/getting-to-sleep-and-lifes-big-squeeze.html
* a starting move for Lesson 1 of The Cat Stretch exercises — for freeing the muscles of the back of the body

– COMPLETE PROGRAM: http://somatics.com/page7-cat_audio.htm

* FULL SELF-RELIEF PROGRAM for back pain: Free Yourself from Back Pain: Make Back Pain Vanish with Nine Movement Sequences that Recondition Your Back when Therapy Hasn’t Worked | http://somatics.com/page7-back_pain.htm

MORE video at http://somatics.com/back_pain.htm

ARTICLES:

Exercises to End Lower Back Pain | Gentle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGwFNYRoBBQ&feature=youtu.be

Clinical Somatic Education | a New Discipline in the Field of Health Care
https://www.youtube.com/user/Lawrence9Gold?feature=mhee

The Inside of SuperPandiculation | Evolutionary Integration (?)

The SuperPandiculation Technique
when applied within oneself
either in somatic education exercises
or in The Gold Key Release
or Memory-Matrix Integration Ritual
invokes or makes possible
a series of internally generated
awakenings, releases and self-corrections.

When applied in highly integrative movements of some intricacy
(as in The Five-Pointed Star series or the simple, Gentle Spine Waves (video))
SuperPandiculation leads to a series of extraordinarily deep releases and self-corrections

that together integrate into greater integrity,
one characterized by more and greater freedom.

That means that, when we function,
more of our resources are available,
new resources, and new intelligence,
so we function better.
The SuperPandiculation Technique
is otherwise known as
The Diamond Penetration Pandiculation Technique
because it penetrates through thick, dense
Sensory-Motor Amnesia and Sensory-Motor Obliviousness
the way a diamond drill bit penetrates through rock.

Sensory-Montor Amnesia
and Sensory-Motor Obliviousness are
in a broader and more basic sense
Attentional-Intenational Amnesia
and Attentional-Intentional Obliviousness

sensory | attention
motor | intention

amnesia
| broken, shaky, or compromised integrity |
a gap or weakening of integrity
~~ or ~~
obliviousness | immature development
or unrecognized/undeveloped integrity potential.

It takes some intensity of attention to relink
or link for the first time
the intensity of a sensation
with the sense of
being able to remember / imagine it accurately.
But that is exactly what must be done to come free --
to shift from automaticity (sub-cortical brain automated memory)
to intelligent control (higher-cortical intention supported by sub-cortical memory).

That's why use The SuperPandiculation Technique:
By boosting the power of attention,
it boosts the power of intention.
It's a Drill. It's a Drill. It's The Drill.
AND, this drill is your drill,
this Diamond Penetration Pandiculation technique.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When the intensity of imagining an experience intentionally
equals or exceeds
the intensity of experiencing the experience on automatic
. . . . .
when the two intensities match
and the two "experiencings" (actual and imagined) match

then release occurs
as a merging, melting and reshaping that
triggers and wildly deepens
the the depth of release of the action
(of the pandicular movement),
culminating in a profound and moving release,
a re-arranging of oneself, wriggling and squirming,
or just lengthening, straightening, or untwisting,
in ways progressively more free of the old pattern
or to the degree of negligible or undetectable intensity
-- more free, altogether.

Meaning . . . . .
it's a big change.
One prepares for it in minutes,
it occurs in seconds,
and one doesn't tend to revert
to the old pattern,
so far away from it one is.

The changes, it seems
are cumulative,
each seeming to pick up
where the last left off.

I do believe that's called
"evolutionary integration."

All You Proto-Mutants,
Out There . . . . .*

I'm Drilling for Gold!
-- evolutionary integration --

* Read Bodies in Revolt, by Thomas Hanna
how human-made changes of the world in which humans live have fostered the development of human proto-mutants, who in turn change the world