MY NOW 2
SESSION TWO — SOMATIC SIGNAL
IGNORING INTERNAL DISTRACTIONS
This is a link to the ‘Principles’ tutorial video - ‘My Now - Session 2 - Principles.’
The second Golden Rule:
“If I can’t read how my body feels, then I have no hope of reading anyone else’s non-verbal communication.”
― Robert (Sherpa) Millar
Session two shifts focus: from processing somatic information to transmitting your somatic signal. The image says 'session 3' because each somatic element spans two sessions in the live program.
An experienced somatic operator picks up subtle signals from other people's body language with extraordinary precision. My Now is the training gym before you enter the external world to read rooms. Until you can ignore internal distractions, you cannot ignore external distractions in the rooms you walk into awake and attentive. Two ways to train someone to read a room somatically:
1) Expose them to prolonged high-risk environments while demanding they notice somatic cues if they want to survive.
2) Expose them to the subtle somatic cues they carry within their own body in a safe setting. This program came into existence because a journalist asked Jermaine Andre and me whether it was possible to prepare white-collar criminals to read a room somatically, making prison safer for them. The answer was 'no', I can't do that, but Jermaine can teach them how to protect themselves from physical violence. But the question sparked curiosity about whether it was possible to train people who weren't in crisis to acquire the same skills.
PROFILE — SOMATIC SIGNAL
Reflection sequence:
The activation process brings itself to the foreground of your mind. The narrative unfolding in the Principle section activated empathic memories from your own lived experience. One of the most common mistakes clients make in this sequence is to ‘think’ about how the questions. Despite having spent six months being encouraged to ‘feel’ their way to the reflection point, they default back to the comfort zone of thinking. Your primitive 'feels' things; it can unravel what the body is feeling. To be embodied, one needs to be able to pay attention to somatic signals.
Now that you have conjured up those lived experiences from your own memory that feel similar to mine, I want you to slow down, find a quiet place to sit, then close your eyes, put your dominant hand on your chest, and check how you felt when reading the Principles section of this session, the instruction, the images, the tone. In client sessions, I run a quick-and-dirty calibration check. After a week of scanning for somatic signals, if you notice no stress or sexual desire, you're probably self-medicating unintentionally with disembodiment techniques to dull the baser signals. This prompt encourages you to move beyond any unintentional disembodiment you may be experiencing.
Now that you have delved into the somatic signal coming from your body right now, move into the practice section after the regular tension check. Losing sight of why you're doing these exercises means you don't wake up as effectively.
In the next post, we'll explore Somatic Planning.
THIS IS NOT TRAINING. IT'S CALIBRATION.
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