Felt sense & relational implicit process
A felt sense is something that happens really fast, below the radar of awareness. It’s in the same general category as a hunch, an intuition, or a gut feeling.
What we mean by Relational Implicit is the emergence of meaning in our interactions. We explore it as an embodied experience (somatic implicit), as a shared experience (shared implicit), and as the glue that binds societies together (collective implicit).
This exploration takes place within the context of a shift:
– from a model where people are seen as individual units, to the psychology of interaction;
– from a top-down, cognitive model to a bottom-up model where much is implicit as opposed to explicit.
Implicit means intangible. It does not mean ethereal. We are talking here about embodied experience.
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A felt sense is something that happens really fast, below the radar of awareness. It’s in the same general category as a hunch, an intuition, or a gut feeling.
The phrase implicit relational knowing was first used to describe the way babies know how to watch and respond to their mothers.
We implicitly respond to experience as we live it. These responses can be called self-states. They are a bottom-up, whole-organism response, as opposed to a top-down response
What happens in the space where interpersonal connection takes place? To the untrained eye, it’s an empty space.
Myths are the glue that binds societies together, small tribes as well as countries or supranational entities.