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The body has mutually exclusive nervous system states with corresponding motor strategies: Attunment (social emotion, motion, communication), or Threat (run, jump, be in conflict), orFreeze (immbolize, conserve energy, act dead). You’re always in one of them. MEMORIZE THIS. https://t.co/NCHB9E0eXk
@nosilverv Intriguingly I've met a few Alexander Technique teachers who talk about the vagus nerve and how AT might be a conscious activation mechanism, but I've yet to dig into it. Guess this is my prompt. There are just too many things to read, Rival. I can't keep up.
@nosilverv The "Alexander Technique state". We call it 'up' (though I'm not sure how widely used that term is). It's what Peter switched on in you. It's an on/off thing, although my baseline off is much improved when compared to my pre-training baseline Related to head/neck placement.
@nosilverv It's the ease and lightness of being incumbered by doing. It's the hilarious recognition that inside = outside. It's our natural anti-gravity system. It's tracking eagles and scorpions in the context of a wide open space. All of these are the same thing. That's "it".
@m_ashcroft Shit ok cool confirmation. Yea I can def. toggle it on. It's pretty funny and you ARE right that it matches the green level! wtf. that makes me think we're fucking with the polyvagal nerver. how to test??
@nosilverv Learning to switch that thing on with a bang is half of the game. Learning to do it even as your habits pull you out of it is the hard part. Play with turning it on! The joy of this thing is literally the joy of living this way. I have no idea how to test the vagal theory...