Can I get 'hands on' my deepest layers of trauma?
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wade neumann
Notes. Thoughts. Big Ideas.
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Wade recently undertook more training in ConTactCare Methods.
If you need the TL;DR
If you need the TL;DR
"Contact Care is about working with the bodies, bone defences to unseen impact. The release method, instead of pushing through tension, it listens to, supports it deeply. When the nervous system feels met rather than managed, it releases naturally."
Something Dale Speedy (The man who manifest the ConTactCare Method) said to me at our course the other day. He looked at me and said, "You know about the sense-abilities of people. You know that a look, a dirty look across a crowded room can be like a poke in the ribs." I didn't make much of it at the time. Was just shocked that he was speaking to me..!
All day we'd been asked to feel the contracted sheath around bone structures. Oh God yes, there's times to question that my fat, old farmer fingers might not be even remotely attuned to the finer point of patho-fascia issues.. I should have had more faith. Mr Speedy is a farmer too..
But later that night, I started making all sorts of connections to the idea that our sense power—our sensitivity, through touch, through feeling, through perception—is way more powerful than I imagined. Immediately that came to mind were the Zen archers in Japan. The archers create feats like shooting the flame off a candle from 30 yards while blindfolded. And the more impressive feat that I ever saw was a series of archers kneeling on the ground and all hitting the bullseye in their target while shooting through a horse's legs that was trotting parallel to them and their targets. They always said, "You let your arrow when the flame is as big as your heart." Never really made much sense at the time..
Then I started wondering about all the ways our senses tell us and amplify what they need to tell us in certain circumstances. Now I'd like to ask, give me two reliable ways that a human finds themselves in the situation where their skin prickles, their hair stands on end, and they get the goose bumps (the chicken skin):
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Number One:
Let's consider cold. When it's cold and still, it's a common occurrence that we end up getting the chicken skin effect, which is probably more accurately known as pyloerection.
Let's consider cold. When it's cold and still, it's a common occurrence that we end up getting the chicken skin effect, which is probably more accurately known as pyloerection.
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Number Two:
When there's a fear of a mortal threat, extreme hazard, extreme danger—also a moment of obscene stillness and awareness and preparation. It's almost like a clarity of the stillness that provides the clarity in the movement after.
Now, thanks to what Dale said, I'm going to throw a third way that pyloerection is reliable and powerful.
When there's a fear of a mortal threat, extreme hazard, extreme danger—also a moment of obscene stillness and awareness and preparation. It's almost like a clarity of the stillness that provides the clarity in the movement after.
Now, thanks to what Dale said, I'm going to throw a third way that pyloerection is reliable and powerful.
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Number Three:
He says the look across the room is as powerful as a poke in the ribs. Let's take that up a level and say for those of you that were lucky enough—let's say catching the eye of the lady that will one day be your wife—across a crowded room. Now that's just fucking electric.
The interesting bit I would find about all of these scenarios is that they integrate us so deeply with our environment at the time, and they can project our environment at the time to someone else's senses from quite a distance. A lot of commentators still argue very much over the purpose of pyloerection in biology. They don't give clear indications as to its use, purpose, or function, even though I think we'd all agree that the wisdom of the body is highly attuned to its use, purpose, and necessary role.
He says the look across the room is as powerful as a poke in the ribs. Let's take that up a level and say for those of you that were lucky enough—let's say catching the eye of the lady that will one day be your wife—across a crowded room. Now that's just fucking electric.
The interesting bit I would find about all of these scenarios is that they integrate us so deeply with our environment at the time, and they can project our environment at the time to someone else's senses from quite a distance. A lot of commentators still argue very much over the purpose of pyloerection in biology. They don't give clear indications as to its use, purpose, or function, even though I think we'd all agree that the wisdom of the body is highly attuned to its use, purpose, and necessary role.
We were introduced by Mr. Speedy to the idea, that our fingers, our toes, and probably everything else connected to what they call the Wolfian Ridge in early stage embryology. That embryonic ridge is a fleeting, transitory step in the dispersal of cells comprising the most sensitive parts of our body. It involves our hands, the palms of our hands, the soles of our feet, our genitals, and pretty much all of our sense organs—the mouth, nose, ears, eyes, lips. Lord help us with the internal sense-organs! Then that ridge disappears, and its mesoderm is utilized in filling in other developing areas in the body. But it's important to note that at one stage all of those areas of our body were literally connected. So when Mr. Speedy says it's incredible what we can sense through our fingers if we allow the information to land and to be recognized for what is actually being delivered rather than what we prefer to perceive it, it makes sense that the rest of those areas in our body also have that likely ability.
If you were to disperse that ability into those moments of pyloerection across three seemingly crazily disparate moments of likelihood that pyloerection is known to impact, then perhaps we start to see a common theme. I'm starting to believe it's a heightening—a contraction—of our sense field, to give a clarity of feedback that we rarely get.
For instance, cold—Victor Schauberger's work in water and cold indicated fairly strongly that the ability to condense and build from experiences happens most strongly at around 4 degrees Celsius. Is it strange that I consider the best chance of reliable pyloerection to be at about 3 a.m. and 4 degrees centigrade, the time of the daily tide change and the time of a certain stillness in temperature.
To add a little more detail, a few years ago some incredibly smart men realized that human, porcine, are able to take high level pulsed coherent light diffuse and lens them functionally and usefully inside our body. Not only is that a shot over the idea that quantum biology can't happen, but it's basically saying that all of the sources of light and energy that we bathe in every day—our skin has the ability to pass it into something as clean, powerful, and penetrating as laser light. Now allowing the idea of how light acts at scale... the smaller the stronger, then shit gets wild
In my remembering, that their testing methodology also indicated reliable effects at all temps encountered in human life, I find that rather amazing. I don't find it a coincidence. I find the idea that all of our sense organs are taking in various forms and sub-harmonics of versions of light and passing/parsing them into clarity, a Claude Shannon signal, for what we perceive, all over our body,for immediate use.. Including the fleeting glance of love.
So here I am wondering: When we set up in ConTactCare to have a sensitivity in our hands to feel what we need to feel that's in front of us —there may be a massive opportunity to heighten the sense powers that we have. I'm begging, and I'm making a plea for someone to test whether they can train for a reliable onset of pyloerection before they use their hands in this bodywork. Perhaps, just perhaps, the results may surprise us.
What's this mean to you?
Have you honestly ever met a therapy that wants to make you comfortable and then make you more comfortable? Then make you more comfortable and expect that comfort to keep coming for weeks after. I haven't. It's always been the paradigm of push the sore spot. cut something open. Damage it a little bit more so that it heals a different direction.
ConTact Care showed me that decades of compromised comfort patterns were a poor version of myself. It showed me that we're not doomed to a life full of compounded physical trauma. We can take pain patterns in two hands and give it back what it needs to let go. There's no better way towards youth and healing in spirit.
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