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JULIE HENDERSON, Ph.D.
PULSATION, The language of the body
“Now I need to bring your attention to just how important pulsation is to being alive. When you use pulsation to talk to a body, you are using its own language. There is no distance between touch and response. Pulsation-and its effects on form-is the basic sign of life. No pulsation, no life. Moreover, pulsation is the means by which we make the body in the first place. If you haven’t had the opportunity before, take the time to watch a videotape of a zygote pulsing itself dynamically from one cell into two, two cells into four, and so on to the ten trillion cells that make up the body as an adult. This pulsation tells us that life is there (or was there, even after death, by its effects on form).
As the body grows and matures, pulsations continue to be the main engine of change in form and, by changing form, creating changes in function.” Julie Henderson http://www.zapchen.com/
Evolutionary learning, or Time for a Nap
“Whenever we have done an exercise-any exercise at all-we need to take a little nap afterwards in order to let the body incorporate the learning that is potential in the exercise. Without this little respite, you have stress without learning. With napping, you learn faster, deeper, more stably, no matter what the activity.
This procedure of doing a bit and resting, doing and resting, and so on, turns out to be the process by which we stimulate transference of what we learn into long term memory. The shift to long term memory is mediated by a protein molecule called CREB (cyclic AMP response element binding protein) and what provokes it to do its job is the very doing and resting and doing and resting that we have emphasized.
We encourage learning that is associated with pleasurable states, teaching well-being from well-being, by induction, support and stabilization of progressive states of well-being. This style of learning we hope will draw you back into it and deeper into it over time. -Julie Henderson, Embodying Well-Being, or, How to Feel Good as You Can In Spite of Everything
“Now I need to bring your attention to just how important pulsation is to being alive. When you use pulsation to talk to a body, you are using its own language. There is no distance between touch and response. Pulsation-and its effects on form-is the basic sign of life. No pulsation, no life. Moreover, pulsation is the means by which we make the body in the first place. If you haven’t had the opportunity before, take the time to watch a videotape of a zygote pulsing itself dynamically from one cell into two, two cells into four, and so on to the ten trillion cells that make up the body as an adult. This pulsation tells us that life is there (or was there, even after death, by its effects on form).
As the body grows and matures, pulsations continue to be the main engine of change in form and, by changing form, creating changes in function.” Julie Henderson http://www.zapchen.com/
Evolutionary learning, or Time for a Nap
“Whenever we have done an exercise-any exercise at all-we need to take a little nap afterwards in order to let the body incorporate the learning that is potential in the exercise. Without this little respite, you have stress without learning. With napping, you learn faster, deeper, more stably, no matter what the activity.
This procedure of doing a bit and resting, doing and resting, and so on, turns out to be the process by which we stimulate transference of what we learn into long term memory. The shift to long term memory is mediated by a protein molecule called CREB (cyclic AMP response element binding protein) and what provokes it to do its job is the very doing and resting and doing and resting that we have emphasized.
We encourage learning that is associated with pleasurable states, teaching well-being from well-being, by induction, support and stabilization of progressive states of well-being. This style of learning we hope will draw you back into it and deeper into it over time. -Julie Henderson, Embodying Well-Being, or, How to Feel Good as You Can In Spite of Everything
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HUMMING
Humming
“Humming touches us at every level of scale, from big, obvious structures like muscle and bone to structures so tiny we can only see them with a microscope. Humming is one of the few ways available to us of touching the very tiny structures deep inside and throughout any living body where information is produced and transmitted. Humming provides a subtle push and pull, a pulsatory tugging, on all bodily structures, even at very tiny levels of scale. By humming we can touch, stroke, vibrate, massage, re-arrange those structures where the information molecules are produced. All by ourselves, without any outside assistance or mechanical intervention, we can touch our own neurochemistry itself.
If we can touch our neurotransmitters appropriately and effectively with sound, we can alter their architecture slightly. Because they convey information by how they are shaped, if we alter their architecture, even slightly-and slightly is all that is necessary or helpful-we alter the information they transmit. Change the form and you change the information. Change the information and you change what you are telling yourself about how you are, how things are, what your experience is-inside and out. With practice, humming becomes the simplest, most direct and effective way we know of to change our neurochemistry and, therefore, our feelings and our familiar life stories about being.
As tiny as they seem, these unseeable inner changes do bubble up into larger physical, emotional, and social changes. Those changes touch others and come back to you.” Julie Henderson, The Hum Book
“Humming touches us at every level of scale, from big, obvious structures like muscle and bone to structures so tiny we can only see them with a microscope. Humming is one of the few ways available to us of touching the very tiny structures deep inside and throughout any living body where information is produced and transmitted. Humming provides a subtle push and pull, a pulsatory tugging, on all bodily structures, even at very tiny levels of scale. By humming we can touch, stroke, vibrate, massage, re-arrange those structures where the information molecules are produced. All by ourselves, without any outside assistance or mechanical intervention, we can touch our own neurochemistry itself.
If we can touch our neurotransmitters appropriately and effectively with sound, we can alter their architecture slightly. Because they convey information by how they are shaped, if we alter their architecture, even slightly-and slightly is all that is necessary or helpful-we alter the information they transmit. Change the form and you change the information. Change the information and you change what you are telling yourself about how you are, how things are, what your experience is-inside and out. With practice, humming becomes the simplest, most direct and effective way we know of to change our neurochemistry and, therefore, our feelings and our familiar life stories about being.
As tiny as they seem, these unseeable inner changes do bubble up into larger physical, emotional, and social changes. Those changes touch others and come back to you.” Julie Henderson, The Hum Book
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