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Hello there good reader.

You are a preverbal visceral system of arousal!

Ummm? What?

You are currently experiencing a constant bombardment of sensory data. This data is reaching you through your senses, your viscera.  

When I use the term ‘senses’ I’m talking about much more than you sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch. You exist with a sense of balance, a sense of depth, a sense of motion and a sense of stillness. Wikipedia has a huge list of your senses including:

• Balance and acceleration

• Temperature

• Proprioception – aka the space around you

• Pain

• Sexual stimulation

• Next we have other  internal senses including:

• Hunger

• Pulmonary stretch which controls your respiration rate

• Peripheral chemoreceptors that monitor carbon dioxide levels

• Stimulation receptors in the esophagus control vomiting and swallowing

• Cardioception refers to the perception of the activity of the heart

We don’t consider these things consciously. At the same time, our language captures clearly how we experience them.

How often hav…