Tag: trauma

  • Armpit as Metastability

    Armpit as Metastability

    Armpit as Metastability The armpit a major locus of biomechanical metastability. The armpit is the heavily meaning laden and sensual body part that is also the coordinative center for the arm. It is deep, dark, and reaches deep within. And yet biomechanically it is by far more interesting than the superficial and blunt shoulder. This…

  • A handful of bones

    A handful of bones

    (From Unsplash) A handful of bones A handful of bones is just about all that we can hold in our mind as we go through the process of our complex daily full body movements. A handful of bones is enough to coordinate and balance the system in almost any position. Perhaps in our mundane daily…

  • Touch, the absence of touch, and trauma. Reflections on the recent 2023 USABP Annual Meeting.

    Touch, the absence of touch, and trauma. Reflections on the recent 2023 USABP Annual Meeting.

    In a world where everyone is profoundly touch deprived then yes, touch can easily equal trauma, or invoke traumatic memories, because it is unexpected and because it can be manipulative and because we are not connected to each other in such a world. In my mind this, the 18th meeting of this association, was evidence…

  • The Anatomy of Self Awareness

    The Anatomy of Self Awareness

    The human body is self-reproducing, self-organizing, and self-healing, but not without self-awareness.

  • Mechanistic paths to wholeness

    A brief discussion of simple ways to change the world.