Contact, Attention, and Reception

exteroception, proprioception, interoception

List the forms of sensory contact

Harmony of the Three

harmony between an object, the experience, and a human sense faculty - comes together to make up contact

long spatial circuit

refers to objects that are further away (ex: seeing far away object out a window)

short spatial circuit

refers to closer object (ex: touching a table)

pressure sensations, temperature, and nerve sensations (electrical, tingling, numb)

What are the things we use to describe proprioception?

sense faculty

These are the senses, such as touch, smell, and sight

object

This is what is being sensed

experience

This is the adjective that describes the object

attention

makes a form of contact (or other mental activity) conscious

reception

all forms of contact are pleasant or painful based on how we receive contact (pleasure or pain)

pleasure

we want it to continue

painful

we want it to stop

3 and 5

(1) When Olivia first takes Warrior Two pose, she experiences mostly the red squares of the bricks in the building she can see through the studio windows. (2) Sometimes she even starts to count the bricks while she is taking the pose. (3) If she is practicing in the afternoon, her internal sense of touch sometimes feels the unpleasant clenching of her stomach. (4) Over months of developing her yoga practice, she becomes able to focus on sensations in her upper arms and legs while taking Warrior Two Pose, and she no longer notices either the building outside or the clenching of her stomach. (5) She especially feels a pleasant warmth in her hip adductor muscles during the pose. (6) The sensation of warmth is caused by the tensile stress she is putting on the muscles located on the inside of her front thigh.

• The activity of reception occurs most explicitly in which two sentences?

proprioception

(1) When Olivia first takes Warrior Two pose, she experiences mostly the red squares of the bricks in the building she can see through the studio windows. (2) Sometimes she even starts to count the bricks while she is taking the pose. (3) If she is practicing in the afternoon, her internal sense of touch sometimes feels the unpleasant clenching of her stomach. (4) Over months of developing her yoga practice, she becomes able to focus on sensations in her upper arms and legs while taking Warrior Two Pose, and she no longer notices either the building outside or the clenching of her stomach. (5) She especially feels a pleasant warmth in her hip adductor muscles during the pose. (6) The sensation of warmth is caused by the tensile stress she is putting on the muscles located on the inside of her front thigh.

• Which “-ception” appears in sentence 5?

interoception

(1) When Olivia first takes Warrior Two pose, she experiences mostly the red squares of the bricks in the building she can see through the studio windows. (2) Sometimes she even starts to count the bricks while she is taking the pose. (3) If she is practicing in the afternoon, her internal sense of touch sometimes feels the unpleasant clenching of her stomach. (4) Over months of developing her yoga practice, she becomes able to focus on sensations in her upper arms and legs while taking Warrior Two Pose, and she no longer notices either the building outside or the clenching of her stomach. (5) She especially feels a pleasant warmth in her hip adductor muscles during the pose. (6) The sensation of warmth is caused by the tensile stress she is putting on the muscles located on the inside of her front thigh.

• Which “-ception” appears in sentence 3?

exteroception

(1) When Olivia first takes Warrior Two pose, she experiences mostly the red squares of the bricks in the building she can see through the studio windows. (2) Sometimes she even starts to count the bricks while she is taking the pose. (3) If she is practicing in the afternoon, her internal sense of touch sometimes feels the unpleasant clenching of her stomach. (4) Over months of developing her yoga practice, she becomes able to focus on sensations in her upper arms and legs while taking Warrior Two Pose, and she no longer notices either the building outside or the clenching of her stomach. (5) She especially feels a pleasant warmth in her hip adductor muscles during the pose. (6) The sensation of warmth is caused by the tensile stress she is putting on the muscles located on the inside of her front thigh.

• Which “-ception” appears in sentence 1?

4

(1) When Olivia first takes Warrior Two pose, she experiences mostly the red squares of the bricks in the building she can see through the studio windows. (2) Sometimes she even starts to count the bricks while she is taking the pose. (3) If she is practicing in the afternoon, her internal sense of touch sometimes feels the unpleasant clenching of her stomach. (4) Over months of developing her yoga practice, she becomes able to focus on sensations in her upper arms and legs while taking Warrior Two Pose, and she no longer notices either the building outside or the clenching of her stomach. (5) She especially feels a pleasant warmth in her hip adductor muscles during the pose. (6) The sensation of warmth is caused by the tensile stress she is putting on the muscles located on the inside of her front thigh.

• The activity of attention appears most explicitly in sentence ____

1

(1) When Olivia first takes Warrior Two pose, she experiences mostly the red squares of the bricks in the building she can see through the studio windows. (2) Sometimes she even starts to count the bricks while she is taking the pose. (3) If she is practicing in the afternoon, her internal sense of touch sometimes feels the unpleasant clenching of her stomach. (4) Over months of developing her yoga practice, she becomes able to focus on sensations in her upper arms and legs while taking Warrior Two Pose, and she no longer notices either the building outside or the clenching of her stomach. (5) She especially feels a pleasant warmth in her hip adductor muscles during the pose. (6) The sensation of warmth is caused by the tensile stress she is putting on the muscles located on the inside of her front thigh.

• There are three circuits of contact described in this paragraph. The longest circuit appears in sentence ___

sight, building, red squares

(1) When Olivia first takes Warrior Two pose, she experiences mostly the red squares of the bricks in the building she can see through the studio windows. (2) Sometimes she even starts to count the bricks while she is taking the pose. (3) If she is practicing in the afternoon, her internal sense of touch sometimes feels the unpleasant clenching of her stomach. (4) Over months of developing her yoga practice, she becomes able to focus on sensations in her upper arms and legs while taking Warrior Two Pose, and she no longer notices either the building outside or the clenching of her stomach. (5) She especially feels a pleasant warmth in her hip adductor muscles during the pose. (6) The sensation of warmth is caused by the tensile stress she is putting on the muscles located on the inside of her front thigh.

• The sense faculty in sentence 1 is ____, the object is ______, the experience is ________