Good Good bye

Been watching this video of Korean singer Hwasa lately. My work with the left tongue has been imperceptibly slow. Even if I am right on the theory, it would not have any practical value in all cases from the point of neurological rehab.  It is still very painful at times and once the pain starts it can last more than a day. The whole left side of the face and jaw are involved. It feels more and more like that it is a completely different way or not felt way before of moving this region

But back to the video, besides being a very cute catchy song, I am taken by the way Hwasa makes complicated movements with ease and simplicity. I am a very anxious person and in response to any stressor I immediately react by rounding my shoulders pull my sternum down and posterior tilt my pelvis. It is such an overwhelming response, 99% of the time I am unaware of it.  If someone says stand tall and upright or I give myself the command, most of the time don't let go of my initial muscular movement. I try to be more upright while fighting against myself.  My sense of watching Hwasa moves is that she is able to maintain that upper thoracic freedom due to good spinal posture. She can give a joy to the song because of the freedom she has. The song is poignant because it is about a breakup but being supportive of the partner. There is also a male version of the song which I like but the emphasis is on the words not the movement.

I have been watching Asian dramas. They usually follow a similar plot line of one Cinderella type gal and two guys with first find the guy and then switch to the other one and then back to the original. I find my emotions being pulled between hope and despair.  I have to close the videos often when it is apparent when one of the characters is going to do something stupid and causes distress to the other character.  However, it is a good way for me to check on what I am doing posturally.  If I find anything worth posting about, I may resume the blog.

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Just had my twitter account 'temporarily suspended' for violating some arcane unspecified rule. Twitter may have legitimate concerns that I am a bot of some sort but I don't feel like jumping through any hoops to get it reinstated.  Groucho Marx said "I wouldn't join any club that would have me".  If tweeting my feelings or retweeting my feelings means I have to jump through whatever filters they have, then it is not worth it.

I think it is time for me to move on from this supposed free information sharing of the internet. I am really not sure I have anything but the most simple of bots reading my posts here. I plan on continuing to work on my left tongue work as it comes. I may be wrong on the whole concept but I don't think so.

Take care

Terry

Are muscles near midline controlled by dominant hemisphere?

Perceptual asymmetries and handedness: a neglected link?

Why the right knee?

which way do you see? (If I read the initial presentation to the right I see rabbit and my brain fills in the ears. If I read it to the left my eyes see duck bill and my brain fills in the head. In any orientation I can see either depending on the direction of read)

Whale of a tale

There is a great deal unsaid in this article and probably a great deal of misunderstanding on my part. In my normal movements I don't think I differentiated the left muscular control of my head, face, tongue and sublingual region but used it in a subordinated way to the right. I think there is a large functional component, that may reinforce the hard-wiring, in that I normally see the persona of others as right sided and relate muscularly in that way.

I think I can use the left side now in a poorly differentiated spastic way and if I work hard enough get a sense of the persona of others in their left side. 

Blue Whales go both ways

"It was the first known example of an animal altering handedness to adjust to the context of a performed task."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2153956-whales-switch-from-right-to-left-handed-when-diving-for-food/

Link

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/left-or-right-tail-wags-elicit-different-emotional-responses-from-dogs/

Link

The The ability to perceive

"This tendency of people to perceive what they expect to perceive is more important than any tendency to perceive what they want to perceive."

Expect to perceive is more important

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/PsychofIntelNew.pdf

I maybe expecting to perceive less from the left side of others faces (right visual field) so that is what I perceive. But then it would seem that there would not be a documented condition of pseudo neglect 

I still have to make a deliberate attempt to see the left side of faces during conversation but it has become more habitual. Watching interviews and such online I feel I get more micro expressions displayed on the right half of others (left visual field) face than the left. I think I expect to see the right half of others (left visual field)expressing the emotions I need to see to understand them.

The the thing is on purpose though I often do it accidently

Puppy dogs eyes

Saw this 'gut wrenching' picture  in one of my web journeys.  I immediately noticed the difference in the eye positions and then put in on my back brain burner. Since seeing the picture I was trying to determine in my mind why the puppy appeared sad. I'm not sure of why but the difference in the position of the eyes reminds me of 'chimeric' image here.  My blog post on the subject.

The right eye is not making contact and looking away and to the right.  The left eye does not seem as sad but there appear to be tear drops streaks on coming from the corner of the left eye. However if I ignore the tears I get a sense that the left eye is still reading the viewer.  Maybe in anticipation of getting a treat or other reward. The immediate sense of my mine in seeing the picture is how can I do something to cheer this fellow up. If I switch the puppies eyes in my mind I don't nearly get the same emotion.

PS Still getting gradual and more control of the left side of my head that feels more left initiated but it still remains incomplete and spastic.

Additional relink on horses

Traden' s story

Caught this on the golf channel this AM

Traden and Rory