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New research suggests that “that the brain integrates tactile sensations as well as audiovisual cues during speech perception, and leads to the surprising conclusion that the somatosensory system can influence the processing of speech sounds.”  This research is continual evidence for Somatic Psychology and the possible learning interventions that may be made in a wide variety of locations; schools, businesses, and organizations.  What this research reveals is the profound relationship between sensation, perception, and context or environment.  This difficulty is that we have culturally marginalized the body’s information, what we might call subtle.  Yet when we slow our internal experience through breath then the nervous system is highly tuned to a cacophony of information.

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In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short”—we are in fact born to be good. He investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies?

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“Within the effulgence of their new brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance-a symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaption whereby two mammal become attuned to each others internal states. It is limibic resonance that makes looking into the face of another emotionally responsive creature a multi-layered experience. Instead of seeing a pair of eyes as two bespeckled buttons, when we look into the ocular portals to the limbic brain our vision goes deep: the sensations multiply, just as two mirros placed in opposition create a shimmering ricochet of reflections whose depth recedes into infinity. Eye contact, although it occurs over a gap of yards, is not a metaphor. When we meet the gaze of another, two nervous systems achive a palpable and intimate apposition.”

(Lewis, Amini, & Lannon, 2000; p. 63)

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