Science Stuff

So you want to know how it all works? You just have to get in the loop… I’ll make this explanation brief.

Simply put, there is a reset mechanism which you can re-regulate through your voluntary motor cortex by activating neural impulses via the process of a pandiculation. It’s sort of like resetting a thermostat for your comfort. You can reset your brain so the output to the muscles will change and re-calibrate like the air in your room.

What’s cool is your brain can instantly change the message its receiving.

As you move with your awareness, your brain sends a message to the muscles in order to contract and move you about. By carefully monitoring how you move in the field of gravity you can sense the adjustments your brain makes.

If you move like you normally move without thinking about it, your moving from the place where you store your learned patterns of movement, namely your cerebellum. This and other parts of your brain help you maintain balance and allow you to walk, talk and chew gum.

If you move reflexively by pulling your hand away from a hot stove, then your brain idles along as the nerves from your muscles and spinal cord coordinate in order to pull away.

Let’s say, you protect yourself from re-injury and you begin to splint yourself so that the sharpness you feel doesn’t rear itself again.

If you continue along this path, then the pattern you’re adapting eventually becomes a learned response or a way of movement so you compensate and re-compensate eventually without your awareness.

Moving without awareness won’t reset the loop. The loop itself allows the communication between what is called your alpha motor neurons and your gamma motor neurons. Your neurons are the nerve cells which conduct the impulses in loops.

Your alpha motor neurons contract to create the necessary tension to move your bag of bones around. Your gamma motor neurons give you the sense of movement.

Moving and sensing and sensing and movement is what Thomas Hanna called Somatics, namely the body experienced from within. Your somatic nervous system is what you use to move and sense yourself.

Your own feedback system is very personal to you and its the feedback loop in your spinal cord and muscles which allows you to adjust yourself in space with your cerebellum… whether you’re immobilized, hurting, or feeling like yourself again.

There’s no trick or method to resetting the loop as is evidenced by our fellow vertebrates. Consistent daily practice and sensing when your out of sorts allows you to cortically reset and readjust yourself accordingly via the process of a series of pandiculations.

However, you may no longer accurately sense yourself since you’re racked in pain and discomfort so you do the best you can though it’s likely you’re no longer resetting yourself through the process of a series of pandiculations.

After all, you’ll see animals doing this consciously a number of times everyday. Did we forget our animal nature? There’s a price for that. Living in a limited body is merely an outward and obvious manifestation of not resetting yourself accordingly.

Resetting your own alpha-gamma loop effectively affords you a natural benefit of being in control. You can evolve your self and be comfortable for the long run.

We all began life as movement and it’s possible the last thing you may do is one final pandiculation – well I did see our pet hamster end his life and we witnessed how it took itself to one final movement and relaxed its way back to where we all come from. That was incredible to witness amidst the emotions of losing a sentient being in our lives.

Healthy animals are in the loop every day …

For a further discussion, just sign up to receive a Free Class to reset your own alpha-gamma loop. You can experience what the result of using your cortical brain is rather than knowing with your brain… and I’ll go into further details there about the neurophysiology as I understand it.