Sunflower Mind: An embodied philosophy of life as interaction
The interaction (the circumstances) shapes you. Sensing into your bodily experience puts you in touch with the bottom-up response of your organism.
Relational Implicit
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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Felt sensing: A mindful inner exploration
Felt sensing is a natural ability that we all have. For many of us, it takes a special kind of attention to find it as we have been over-reliant on explicit cognition.
Embodiment, trauma & empowerment
The body we are referring to is much more than just the physical body. It is the experience of the body from the inside.
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.
Implicit relational knowing: Interaction & the emergence of meaning
The phrase implicit relational knowing was first used to describe the way babies know how to watch and respond to their mothers.
Somatic Implicit: Embodied experience & felt sense
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
Shared Implicit: The space of interpersonal connection
What happens in the space where interpersonal connection takes place? To the untrained eye, it’s an empty space.
Collective Implicit: The myths that bind us together
Myths are the glue that binds societies together, small tribes as well as countries or supranational entities.
Self & interaction: related ideas
The experience of selfhood is not the entirety of our organism, but an integrated expression of the entire organism acting in its environment.
Implicit relational knowing & clinical skills
While cognition, intelligence, knowledge, and research are mandatory for a surgeon, it takes manual dexterity for surgery to be successful.