The Encounter: A study on Intimacy in the Somatic Transitions processes from the perspective of Stanley Keleman's Formative Psychology (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The study that follows talks about how we can live a personal life and not be taken by our impulses and patterns of responses that no longer make sense to be repeated. Somatic intimacy is an organization, a structure, a form that organizes itself in the formative practice of micro movements, micro actions that confer the formation of a gradient of experiences on how we respond internally to events and how we communicate our feelings and thoughts and actions in our relationships within ourselves and with the world.

To live a personal life is to learn, experience, and influence organized responses. Living process of forming between established and emerging structures that give the organism its continuous growth throughout a lifetime. We are always finishing something, gestating something or starting something new; these experiences and behaviors form our formative process. In order to grow, the organism organizes motor, emotional and cortical responses, which organize functions from swelling to extending and collecting, to compacting, conferring various degrees of malleability and firmness. Being close to our somatic responses gives us personhood by organizing the continuum of neural and motor connections.

Self influence in the use of EMCV – VOLUNTARY CORTICAL MUSCULAR EFFORT, it allows us to organize micro variations in our experience, generating different degrees of tonus, micro actions in an elongated experience time, which produce new synapses, new cortical registers about how we function and how we can respond to events.

A personal life is a creative, poetic, self-managed, self-influential life, where we learn from our ancestral and inherited experiences to build new futures. We are heirs to our family histories and our ancestral structures, continually building new forms.