From the exercise in Chapter 2 'Befriending the Autonomic Hierarchy' If you are comfortable sharing what your 'Internal landscape' is like/named and why or what is means to you (or just bullet points, whatever you choose) please post or comment below.
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Looking at my response to the exercise, in ink and brush, stream of consciousness-flow, I found (transcribing from my journal notes):
• staccato awkward-smooth of some sympathetic arousal — open, punctuated
• the fast-energy and containment, negation, anger, fog of the over-arousal sympathetic
• the barely there, ink does what it wants of 'collapse'
• showing aspects of all states in one of them, with the dark cloud of collapse above
• the second one with the 'heart' cloud, the wind, the pebble beach fluidity and pigment pull, playful looping
• another calm-protected soft centre one (collapse with some protection?) — the 'survival' landscapes involved anger-protection, contain-hide-negate, and dissolution, dissolve, letting it be, non-action
It had me thinking about underlying states when going about activities... life: How often in work am I in a tense, rigid, frenzy-state? or in collapse, forcing it into sympathetic? How often in social situations, am I in a girding-tension, while shoving that feeling down and faking joviality (faking ventral?) How often when cooking, or painting, do I find myself becoming too tense, on guard, rushing, judgemental, or fearful? I used to not notice all of this. visualizing and/or verbalizing the states gives more modes of access. (I'll share the ink sketches in our session Wednesday or below, if I can find them!)