relationship between emotions and thoughts positions

[Eongar]

Hi everyone,
I have a question because it is something I'm thinking a lot lately, but I managed to look good. It is the matter of the body and emotions, and even thoughts.

I will be brief. I am practicing an exercise that is related on realizing the physical stresses that we do with our positions at different times of the day, which, certainly, is awesome I do unnecessary tensions throughout the day. The point is that to what extent this affects the way we feel emotions and to our way of thinking. So simple to understand me better, I mean if a person shrinks to a certain situation, you may feel more fear of what happens, and if you take out your reaction will be different chest. It is a childish example, as this issue is more complex. But this issue I think is very interesting because everything is linked-in ISOTM talking about this, and according to our physical posture, our body and brain functions in a particular way, and that makes us more slaves than we "happen" in my opinion, because if you do not even have control over the physical body affects other aspects of the individual, we can not do. G and said that it is essential to be aware of these tensions, too.

There is some material to talk about this issue concretely regarding this relationship? In honestly I empirically difficult to say anything about it because I have not yet fully realized the full extent of this issue. Thanks

 

[Possibility of Being]

Hi Alvaro,
I think you'd greatly benefit from reading "In an Unspoken Voice" by Peter Levine. I know I did, especially in this particular field as it was my question for a long time as well.

You can find a quote I posted here and more in the thread In An Unspoken Voice - Peter Levine posted by obyvatel. His second post is titled Posture and Emotions :)

 

[Buddy]

There is some material to talk about this issue concretely regarding this relationship?

You may also be interested in "Embodied Cognition". The contemporary version of this work also casts these relationships in new, unexpected ways. Think motion-emotion, action-thought. It all seems to be integrated in ways a person might not expect.

Although embodied cognition has roots in Kant and 20th century continental philosophy (such as Merleau-Ponty), the shape this work has taken is said to draw on insights from recent research in linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, robotics and neurobiology.

The concept has also been introduced in the science fiction arena in the idea of projecting unified personalities, minds or "souls" into different bodies. This premise is baked into the plots of stories like Avatar and Caprica.

Philosophers, cognitive scientists and artificial intelligence researchers who study embodied cognition and the embodied mind believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body.

They argue that all aspects of cognition, such as ideas, thoughts, concepts and categories are shaped by aspects of the body. These aspects include the perceptual system, the intuitions that underlie the ability to move, activities and interactions with our environment and the native understanding of the world that is built into the body and the brain.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition

Before I became aware of this I had already been making use of some of the ideas involving the mind-body connection. When feeling a bit thick-headed or just needing some extra energy for thinking purposes, I would get up and move around, tap the back of my neck, rock in my chair, etc. Cognitive fixations become more flexible and thinking becomes much easier.

I had even made a tentative connection between Don Juan's saying about awareness at the level of the toes, another statement I read somewhere about how birth trauma supposedly limits awareness to the boundary of the body, and the "deductive mind" working alone without benefit of the environmental-context cognitive loop (inductive mind).

 

[cubbex]

Hi Alvaro,
I think you'd greatly benefit from reading "In an Unspoken Voice" by Peter Levine. I know I did, especially in this particular field as it was my question for a long time as well.

You can find a quote I posted here and more in the thread In An Unspoken Voice - Peter Levine posted by obyvatel. His second post is titled Posture and Emotions :)

Looks like this book is the new baby in the Fellowship. I just had the idea to put it on the recommended books I don't know if its there.

I'll try to get it, in barnes and noble you may read parts of it online, and it looks pretty good.

 

[Chu]

Alexander Lowen also talks a great deal about this in his book Bioenergetics. You might like at least some of it.

With what we have been discovering recently about the Polyvagal Theory, I believe we have found a real scientific explanation for the relationship between the body and the emotions. There is especially a lot of interesting information there regarding facial muscles and the "smart vagus", which helps us to relate with others, communicate socially, express emotions, etc. You can read his study with autistic patients, for example, and how facial expressions change after a certain auditory stimulus is given.

In the past, there was also the Primal Therapy, which dealt with repressed trauma in the body, and used the "Primal scream" to release it. People were supposed to suddenly be in a particular posture, and they would suddenly scream like a baby, sort of. From what I've been reading about it, although it provided with very positive results, it was a bit tricky, because it could be too shocking for the patients to all of a sudden express a lot of anger, sadness, etc.

Lots of interesting stuff! A very good thing, if you want to try it and can find someone close to your home, is rolfing. Not only does it change your posture enormously, but it also helps release some really deep emotions.