Beginning skills of tracking the body, describing what is observed, and naming present moment
bodily experience in the form of a contact statement
Other researchers (Roche & Gal - Petitfaux, 2015) have studied the effects of a tool that helps students identify the bodily skills needed to act in the classroom (in physical education) and showed that video - based training sparked a sensory immersion allowing students to develop reflection processes, both individual (about
bodily experience in the classroom) and collective (about professional rules).
Physical measurement provides a means of ordering observations according to the necessary conditions of succession and juxtaposition that characterize
bodily experience in time and space.
Not exact matches
A man to them was primarily a body, animated, to be sure, with a breath - soul, but still basically a body, and all his
experiences, intellectual and emotional as well as physical, were conceived
in bodily terms.
At the beginning, a physical organism, whose life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional
experiences were the functions of
bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged
in the corporate mass of his tribe, without individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.
Now
in Whitehead's schema, the complex transformations of
bodily experience into higher levels of integration with mental initiatives of wider scope is a similar requirement for sustained realization of value, rather than momentary purposes (IMM 690).
The first description points to a level of mental functioning
in which
bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement of the mental pole
in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual form of
bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations
in the interest of greater depth of
experience.
The individual can not escape his incorporation
in the group and his never ending dependence on it; it is the master fact of his
experience; his whole life, apart from his most intimate
bodily aches, pains, and delights, consists
in the shared life of the group.
Experience itself, therefore, is only truly consummated
in the passion of generation where the spontaneous expression of
bodily energy duplicates and even makes incarnate
in each individual body the universal process of the kenosis or emptying of the Godhead.
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1)
bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons
in relation, and 4) the
experience of
bodily pleasure is important
in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»
Our moments of
bodily and mental «togetherness» are analogous to the
experience we have of Jesus
in the church.
Deeper temporal transitions,
in particular those involved with
bodily experience, continue.
How could it be otherwise, since we directly respond to
bodily processes whose parts are
in different places, and since our
experience directly controls or influences these
bodily processes?
Once we understand the Hebrew success
in conceiving Yahweh as the great «I,» we can see that Hebrew reflection, or perhaps better, Hebrew
experience with Yahweh, led to the explicit rejection of the idea that he had
bodily form or was localized
in spatial terms.
At this point, however, the chain of
bodily events is at an end, and we must consider the relation of the numerous cellular events
in the brain to our conscious visual
experience.
Although they may choose such acts as means of
experiencing personal intimacy, the resulting
experience is not and can not be the
experience of any real unity between them; it is not and can not be the
experiencing of a common good attained
in and through an act of
bodily union.
Either they had this psychological illusion, which would be very natural, or, what is more likely, when they tried to tell of their
experience the only way they could tell it was
in words that led others to think they were speaking of the
bodily presence.
As the Christian comes to abandon his belief
in the empty tomb and «
bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may
experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things
in which he trusted.
In his free decisions he again and again
experiences the resistance of his
bodily nature with its own propensities for good and ill.
Whitehead describes
in some detail the transformations and transmutations that are involved
in the process of human
experience being affected by these external physical events as transmitted through
bodily ones.
To put it
in another way, there is a flow of causal efficacy from the events external to the body to
bodily events and from them to the occasions of human
experience.
Likewise, he can talk about causal interaction between the central series of
experiences in the human being (the mind, or psyche) and the
bodily cells.
Thus his argument
in support of his system involves an appeal to the fundamental importance of our
bodily experience rather than simply our
experience as centered selves (cf. AI 243).
Here he stresses the role of the body, for
in the mode of causal efficacy, «the almost instantaneously precedent
bodily organs» impose their characters on the
experience in question.
Even
in dreams, as Bergson has shown, once and for all so far as I am concerned, two further realities are involved: some aspects of the subject's own past
experiences (memory) and (sensory awareness) of the subject's
bodily state,
in whatever sense it has a body, and with the last, to some extent, the state of the environment, as well.
For Whitehead, the «soul» is composed of a series of «presiding» or «dominant» occasions
in our bodies; he supposes that these «dominant occasions» occur
in or about the brain so as to receive from the brain a peculiarly - focussed «report» of
bodily experience, not available to any other occasion.
By this, process - thought (as expounded by Whitehead) means that there is given to us,
in our
experience at all levels (including our «
bodily» as well as our intellectual awareness), the sense of a variety of relationships which have played upon us and brought our
experience to us
in the particular way
in which
in fact it has been brought.
We have been saying that parent - child intimacy develops
in the process of teaching the child to prize his own body and
bodily experiences, his own senses and sensations, his own feelings, both good and bad.
These subordinate, nondominant, and nonconscious (not explicitly reflective) enduring objects ease the job of the presiding occasion of the regnant society
in integrating
bodily experience and are called by Gallagher subordinate «living persons.
That is, the key to the effectiveness of the attunement to certain possibilities consists
in their being channeled
in a regnant society and that regnant society's influencing the remaining
bodily occasions such that they likewise become anticipatively «set» to
experience certain data rather than others.
These subordinate «living persons,» he goes on to tell us, are «threads of inheritance of lesser intensity of
experience than the dominant one, threads more closely bound to the reiterative aims of the body» — as
in bodily habits.
This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing
in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive»
experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent
in every case —
experiences which, as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example,
in a dull
bodily sensation,
in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..
The Studies «The Experimental Induction of Out - of - Body
Experiences» by H. Henrik Ehrsson and «Video Ergo Sum: Manipulating
Bodily Self - Consciousness» by Bigna Lenggenhager et al., both published
in the August 24, 2007, issue of Science.
«If [a patient] can accept his
bodily homoerotic
experience while staying connected to the therapist,» he wrote
in «The Paradox of Self - Acceptance,» «the sexual feeling soon transforms into something else: the recognition of deeper, pain - generated emotional needs which have nothing to do with sexuality.»
(And, if you used your imagination to understood the last few sentences, you will see how grounding abstract terms such as force and radius
in concrete
bodily experiences, such as roller skating, can generate new understanding.)
Researchers have found evidence that the emotional
experience of guilt can be grounded
in subjective
bodily sensation.
In an article titled «The Weight of a Guilty Conscience: Subjective Body Weight as an Embodiment of Guilt» in the journal PLOS ONE, Day and Bobocel find evidence that the emotional experience of guilt can be grounded in subjective bodily sensatio
In an article titled «The Weight of a Guilty Conscience: Subjective Body Weight as an Embodiment of Guilt»
in the journal PLOS ONE, Day and Bobocel find evidence that the emotional experience of guilt can be grounded in subjective bodily sensatio
in the journal PLOS ONE, Day and Bobocel find evidence that the emotional
experience of guilt can be grounded
in subjective bodily sensatio
in subjective
bodily sensation.
A unique approach to finally decreasing your
bodily pains so you can
experience more mobility
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Said study author Debby Hebernick, PhD,
in a press statement
in 2012: «These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the
bodily processes underlying women's
experiences of orgasm.»
In a small experimental study, participants in an eight - week mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) program — focusing on the breath, mental content and bodily sensations while walking, sitting or practising yoga — experienced notably smaller post-stress inflammatory responses than control subject
In a small experimental study, participants
in an eight - week mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) program — focusing on the breath, mental content and bodily sensations while walking, sitting or practising yoga — experienced notably smaller post-stress inflammatory responses than control subject
in an eight - week mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) program — focusing on the breath, mental content and
bodily sensations while walking, sitting or practising yoga —
experienced notably smaller post-stress inflammatory responses than control subjects.
A really interesting paper, published this year
in the journal PLOS ONE, looked at the
bodily experience of guilt to see if we actually embody the emotion of guilt.
â $ These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the
bodily processes underlying women's
experiences of orgasm,» said lead author Debby Hebernick, PhD, a sexual health educator from The Kinsey Institute
in a press statement.
As reproductive hormone levels drop off, women
experience drastic
bodily changes, like vaginal dryness, decrease
in libido, and loss of bone density.
She speaks from extensive personal
experience in healing many patients of
bodily ailments and many other problems solely through Christian Science treatment.
With this state of being comes equipoise and the «clear light» of
experiencing your
bodily experience,
in the now.
Many of our moods, daily
bodily rhythms (including sleep - wake cycles), and
experiences of stress and pain have serotonin included as a factor
in their occurrence.
The brain is the
bodily organ that most affects who you are and your
experience of living — so learning how to take good care of it, and strengthen and direct it
in the ways that will help you the most, is a profound gift to yourself, and to everyone else whose life you touch.
Remember we all poop, it's a natural
bodily function and most of us
experience snags
in regularity at different times
in our lives.
In Mike Mills» 20th Century Women that word — referring to that oft -
experienced yet rarely spoken of
bodily function — gets a hefty workout during one of the movie's funniest scenes.
By associating a thought or emotion with a movement, you are fostering kinesthetic empathy, or the idea that
bodily experiences provide a type of knowledge that can not be conveyed through words alone, allowing others to better connect with you and how you are feeling
in that moment.