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Body Sensations: Neurobiology, Learning To Feel, And Sensory Teamwork, Gin Mccollum
Body Sensations: Neurobiology, Learning To Feel, And Sensory Teamwork, Gin Mccollum
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Most of us must learn to feel, as an artist learns to see in order to draw. All of the physiological processes of feeling and seeing can happen with no awareness at all, when the mind is wandering elsewhere. Essential to the learning process is awareness, prajna. With no awareness, we have unconscious sensations, not conscious perceptions.
The light striking the retina of the eye is the first step in seeing. A great deal more happens in the visual part of the cerebral cortex, at the back of the head, and along the pathways to it. The conscious experience of …