MY ROOM 2
SESSION TWO — SOMATIC CERTAINTY
IGNORING EXTERNAL DISTRACTIONS
This is a link to the ‘Principles’ tutorial video - ‘My Room - Session 2 - Principles.’
The second Red Rule:
“It takes an earthquake to change certainty. Don’t worry, you will notice when the room shifts, if that ever happens!”
― 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 and from the physical space with extraordinary precision. They do this by ignoring 80% of what they can notice. An Apex predator has to triage the information flow to capture the one or two relevant pieces of information to be able to be standing at the right place at the right time.
I am constantly bemused to watch a room of people mindlessly be captivated by a speck of certainty. In a world that has become increasingly risk-averse, someone who bets their life on their level of certainty becomes an attention magnet for sleepwalkers. The irony is that certainty is seldom the relevant thing to notice in the moment. It isn’t going to change, and if it does, it will shake everyone’s world. You focus on what is in flux, not what is bedrock.
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 hunter 'feels' things; it doesn't think about them. It feels for that familiar feeling of Certainty, then dismisses it as an irrelevant distraction.
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. This isn’t touchy-feely mediation, mindfulness techniques. It is how tier-one operators check in with their spidy sense. If it makes you uncomfortable, tough it out!
Now that you can somatically feel for certainty in a room, move to practicing. This program has five sessions. Whether you race through or take your time, come back and slow down. I created this program as a subject-matter expert in Somatic Reading, and I still do these Somatic Exercises daily. I need to stay awake and not sleepwalk, so I practice what I teach.
In the next post, we'll explore Somatic Curiosity.
THIS IS NOT TRAINING. IT'S CALIBRATION.
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