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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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