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Understanding Soma
Term | Definition | ||
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differentiation | understanding of being separate | ||
to be is to experience | existence or life, proprioceptive response, differentiation | ||
objective reality | physically occurring factual record that conforms to universally accepted principles | ||
existence | the fact or state of living in or having objective reality | ||
perception of reality | processed by the brain and body through stimuli in our environment | ||
primary structures involved in perception of reality | brain, nervous system, sensory organs, proprioceptive responses | ||
proprioception | to experience and understand where our limbs are positionally in space through receptors throughout our body (conscious and unconscious) | ||
interoception | process of being aware of your body states and your emotional states. | ||
exteroception | how your senses provide information about your external environment | ||
3 domains of perception | proprioception, interoception, exteroception | ||
the 3 domains work together | to help a human being understand their outer world, inner world and their physicality | ||
interoception is key | to emotional regulation | ||
SOMA evolved to mean | the body living in its wholeness (greek) | ||
The sensory system is made up of | sensory neurons sensory receptor cells neural pathways | ||
central nervous system | the brain and spinal cord | ||
peripheral nervous system | the somatic and autonomic nervous system | ||
memory is | reactivation of a group of neurons generated from persistent inputs and the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved | ||
synaptic plasticity is | the ability of neurons to alter the strength of their connections which facilitates brain network development and reorganization | ||
nervous system dysregulation | imbalance between the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems | ||
dysregulation occurs when someone | doesn’t know how to self-regulate and has not built up enough emotional resilience to see the possible error | ||
fascia | interconnected web that is able to communicate and transmit subtle information throughout the body |