tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87928803972490552142024-02-06T21:21:51.690-08:00My left tongue tootghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.comBlogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-44195067290265248132017-12-08T09:20:00.002-08:002024-01-22T07:52:43.189-08:00Last Post<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
Terry<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1160372/" target="_blank">Are muscles near midline controlled by dominant hemisphere</a>?<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3938099/">Perceptual asymmetries and handedness: a neglected link?</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-right-knee.html">Why the right knee?</a><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1366501252964573184" target="_blank">which way do you see</a>? (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)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-67287677016266627382017-11-28T12:06:00.001-08:002017-11-28T12:06:17.722-08:00Whale of a taleThere is a great deal unsaid in this <a href="http://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2017/11/blue-whales-go-both-ways.html">article </a>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 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1160372/">right</a>. 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.<br />
<br />
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. tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-59039940046182381692017-11-21T08:03:00.001-08:002017-11-21T08:07:50.717-08:00Blue Whales go both ways<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 15px;">"It was the first known example of an animal altering handedness to adjust to the context of a performed task."</span><br />
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "pt" serif;">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2153956-whales-switch-from-right-to-left-handed-when-diving-for-food/</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "pt" serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "pt" serif;"><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2153956-whales-switch-from-right-to-left-handed-when-diving-for-food/">Link</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/left-or-right-tail-wags-elicit-different-emotional-responses-from-dogs/</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><a href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/left-or-right-tail-wags-elicit-different-emotional-responses-from-dogs/">Link</a></span><br />
<br />
<br /></div>
tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-16327985132414280592017-10-24T09:24:00.000-07:002017-10-24T09:50:35.125-07:00The 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."<br />
<br />
<b><u>Expect</u></b> to perceive is more important<br />
<br />
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/PsychofIntelNew.pdf<br />
<br />
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 <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pseudoneglect">pseudo neglect </a><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
The the thing is on purpose though I often do it accidentlytghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-59674544661370371552017-10-21T09:28:00.000-07:002017-10-21T12:18:10.350-07:00Puppy dogs eyesSaw this 'gut wrenching' <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4993644/Dogs-use-different-facial-expressions-communicate.html">picture</a> 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 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR9sMva7F3Acg4NuShrS5ho3F-BkP7xxhvXezTyJLSkKc6kNN_OvuNmiDpT7QvJryBtD64l8O3Hk080YY3l40nCM_yFGy_5cOkog-CN_MVgIxOldDHh7KlL_7SVi-2RZ4xz8TOrTXg_p8h/s1600/Julian+Jaynes+faces.jpeg">here</a>. My blog <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8792880397249055214#editor/target=post;postID=8115742609623890586;onPublishedMenu=template;onClosedMenu=template;postNum=27;src=postname">post</a> on the subject.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Additional relink on <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/how-horses-read-human-emotions/471264/?platform=hootsuite">horses</a>tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-10716598423911409342017-08-13T11:50:00.000-07:002017-08-13T11:50:02.829-07:00Traden' s storyCaught this on the golf channel this AM<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.golfchannel.com/video/unforgettable-traden-karch-story-2017/">Traden and Rory</a><br />
<br />
<br />tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-41844056871090818112017-07-16T20:11:00.002-07:002017-07-16T20:14:11.671-07:00The powerful rightJust read an interesting <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-daily-062117">article</a> on power.<br />
If combined with <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pseudoneglect">pseudo-neglect</a> and I pay attention to the left space (the right side of head of others) and they do the same we are communicating with each others right side.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lyon text" , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><i>When we watch someone perform an action, the part of the brain we would use to do that same thing lights up in sympathetic response.</i></span>tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-37244764449418345492017-07-03T07:38:00.001-07:002017-07-07T07:40:32.007-07:00Seeing the Lost EyeHeading up to Eureka and planning on stopping by <a href="http://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2016/09/lost-reality.html">The Lost Coast Brewery </a>again. I was looking at their <a href="https://lostcoast.myshopify.com/collections/swag/products/tangerine-wheat-pint-glass-1">artwork </a>and noticed the large discrepancy of size between the left and right eyes. In most of the designs the right eye is much larger than the left. I believe it reflects accurately how I see someone. Most of my attention is normally directed (almost said drawn) to the right eye (their right) with the left eye seen but not really noticed.<br />
<br />
On a personal note my left side of head is becoming more differentiated with the muscular elements being used in coordination with each other. I still do not have a defined left tongue and I have poor almost spastic control but it is definitely a different way of using my head than my normal right side dominant muscular behavior.<br />
<br />
<br />tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-78710031623560668572017-03-02T10:17:00.000-08:002017-03-02T10:17:13.085-08:00See him roarBeen watching Lionel lately. I share some of his political views and differ on some, but from the left tongue perspective there is a great deal of movement on his right side (my left visual field) of his face that is more prominent than the left side. However he does use both sides expressively. Keeping the video on pause and using the arrow to jump on the timeline there are significant differences. I believe my instinctive way to see his face is to really see only the right side and relate to it with my dominant right side.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDp8sgZYzBM">Lionel expressions</a><br />
<br />
It's a fun face to watch no matter, but he needs a better settghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-3268849110881720802017-01-31T10:47:00.000-08:002017-01-31T17:54:27.011-08:00Ungrounded<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Homunculus arguments are always </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Fallacy">fallacious</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> unless some way can be found to 'ground' the regress."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></i>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">On occasion one will run into this argument in the blogosphere to put down a point of view in a condescending way. "Of course you know there is no little man inside of you watching your actions"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I can evaluate by memory my actions of what I did yesterday, also an hour ago. I also can do it for a minute ago and possibly a half second ago. If I am engaged in conversation and I see an eyebrow raised, my memories of that action are pulled into what I am currently saying. So there is no little man watching inside of me but in a way but I am constantly evaluating and remembering almost in real time.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnnvoeBPygQ">overkill</a><br />
<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-25859762132105891192017-01-03T12:49:00.001-08:002017-01-08T08:44:13.653-08:00Continued doubtI have not posted in a long time. I did not feel I had anything more to add. As before I keep getting more movement in the left side of my head that I never felt before. Most of the movements are painful to some degree. I am getting more sense of movement in what feels to be my left lower sinus. However I still don't have a left tongue that I can manipulate in any sense of the word as in comparison to my usual sense of the older tongue. Until I can I will always have doubt my understanding is correct.<br />
<br />
<br />
late edit<br />
<br />
Just in the last two days I have had a great deal of pain and tightness. If there is a 'left tongue' it is tied to a much bigger use of the head and throat use in a global way that is very unfamiliar.tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-80586214452110326532016-09-27T11:13:00.000-07:002016-09-27T11:53:01.125-07:00Get LostRecently visited the <a href="http://www.lostcoast.com/main.php">Lost Coast Brewery </a> with my wife and went on the tour. The hostess did a great job and in the tasting room we both took home a tasting glass with inscription on one side that said "Get Lost".<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/09/06/492779594/what-if-evolution-bred-reality-out-of-us">Can I see reality</a>?<br />
<br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">So imagine you have two kinds of creatures living in an environment. The first is tuned to respond directly to objective reality — the actual independent reality out there. The other creature has behavior only tuned to its, and the environment's, fitness function. The second creature couldn't care less about what's really going on in reality. What Hoffman's theorem says is the </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fitness-tuned</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> critter will — almost always — win the evolution game.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></i>
Only if I am lost? Hopefully it's just a rhetorical question.tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-70286865422122503782016-08-01T10:28:00.001-07:002016-08-01T10:33:56.154-07:00Stabilization versus movement complexityIf I am correct that I see the 'persona' in the right half of someone else's face and that is what I posturally adjust too, is there a blocking of movements on the left side of my face? As mentioned in the previous <a href="http://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2016/07/deciphering-bones.html">post</a> I am feeling strong sensations (small in size, spastic, but forceful) in areas where I am surprised to feel anything but skull bones. In my movement picture of myself these areas are not suppose to move. Going back to the <a href="http://www.feldenkrais.com/moshe-feldenkrais">Feldenkrais</a> idea of how we try to limit the complexity of a movement by stabilizing one region to allow a different region to gain more control feels like what I am finding in my head movements. By focusing on the right half of someone else face (presumably as they focused on my right side) movements on my left half were stabilized to facilitate the complex movements on on the right <a href="http://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2013/07/why-do-elephants-have-trunks.html">side</a>.<br />
<br />
Even though I am trying to facilitate movements in the left side they often feel unpleasant, not right, and much more involved than what I am attempting.tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-78277933844843998082016-07-07T09:11:00.000-07:002016-08-01T10:42:31.945-07:00Deciphering the bonesA couple of weeks ago I was in a mall and I noticed a man coming towards us in a 'hemi' wheelchair propelling with the left foot only while holding a phone in the left hand. The right hand was in his lap and the the right foot was on the foot rest. (Typical of right hemiplegia and left CVA). As he came toward me I was interested in seeing if he acknowledged me with the left side of face and how I would react. His smile was definitely left sided but more interesting was my reaction. Even though I was trying to connect to his left side with my left side, mid stream I switched to my usual and tried to connect with his right side. I realized it and had to try and re-establish the left side contact which took a good deal of mental effort and a second or two. It felt like the habit of seeing the 'persona' in the right side of someone's face took over and I had to verify what I was seeing on the left. However the right side of his face was very stroke impaired. So I was left hanging in no man's land for short period of time and I assume the man in the wheelchair got a mix message from me.<br />
<br />
A side issue which seems to be happening as I am trying to work with my left tongue (which still is remarkably undefined in movement) is that it almost feels like I am moving the bones of my face mainly on the left but some on the right. Areas in which I seem to expect no movement are being pulled very forcibly. Again even though the movements are very small the amount of force seems to be quite large and the areas activated are often quite distant from the focus of the 'left tongue'tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-36672934336611538142016-07-04T15:06:00.000-07:002016-07-04T15:09:04.983-07:00Coordinated mimimickingIt's becoming more apparent that elements of the left side (head, face, throat and tongue) are not used in isolation but rather in coordination with other elements on the left side in left sided initiation and control. I thought I would be able to isolate elements of the left side and gain control but it feels much bigger. It is interesting to find elements of the left side in coordinated action when I am trying to only gain some further control of one element.<br />
<br />
A similar process is in my ability the persona in the left side of someone's head. In my normal viewing of someone I see the persona as right sided and I mimic that side without thought in my normal attempt to read the persona. Most often the left side of others has less to read and mimic but still has a great deal for me to see and reflect in myself. So when I react to the left side the whole of my left side has to react in a coordinated way to mimic what is seen.<br />
.<br />
<br />tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-21512127406908955392016-06-19T09:08:00.002-07:002016-06-19T09:08:48.053-07:00Temple of painQuite a bit of pain last night. I start playing with trying to accentuate the feeling of the left tongue/throat and it gradually takes over the whole use of the head. Much of the pain was centered in the right temple but the sensation of tautness is more sublingual left. I don't have a good explanation for the pain but it does feel like I am doing things against the normal use of the musculature and fascia. A couple of ibuprofen made a big difference.tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-960586730524317582016-06-05T09:03:00.002-07:002016-06-05T09:03:28.891-07:00Zygomatic process?Still playing with the idea and feelings of the trying to develop the left tongue. I am finding some movement to my surprise much higher than what I would suspect to find it. It almost feels like I am moving in my where my mental image is of my lower left sinus extending forward to my <a href="http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/ranzcrpart1/images/3/36/Zygomatic_arch1330026735555.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150415071408">zygomatic bone</a>. The movements are again small, poorly controlled but feel very strong.tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-28060752651972980982016-05-15T20:46:00.000-07:002016-05-22T07:46:50.089-07:00Natural left botoxI have not posted in awhile. Just read this <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160512085113.htm">article</a> today on how by using botox it may limit our emotional range. Again I think I never really saw the left half of peoples faces and was unable to mimic the emotions seen in the left half of face(right visual field) but used my right eye to connect with their right eye(left visual field). I now feel I saw the other person as right sided and related to their right side.<br />
<br />
I am now able to use my left side of head in a different way than I have been able to previously in my life. The movements have a global left side initiation, are very strong, but still limited in control. I often can see a 'persona' expressed in the left side of someone else's face. It is still not my natural habitual way of seeing and communicating,but I keep getting a slow enlargement of my left movement capabilities.<br />
<br />
Quote from article<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Baumeister's intuition stems from a very well-known scientific theory, called embodiment. The idea is that the processing of emotional information, such as facial expressions, in part involves reproducing the same emotions on our own bodies. In other words, when we observe a smile, our face too tends to smile (often in an imperceptible and automatic fashion) as we try to make sense of that expression. However, if our facial muscles are paralyzed by Botox, then the process of understanding someone else's emotion expression may turn out to be more difficult.</span>tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-13074374921549130102016-03-09T08:56:00.002-08:002016-03-09T08:56:54.552-08:00Strongly LeftJust a quick note. In my continuing attempts to differentiate my left tongue in movement I am getting more and more of strong sublingual tongue musculature control. Small movements in this region have dramatic influence on the head/face/jaw control. tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-37581275259310669672016-03-01T13:16:00.004-08:002016-03-02T07:55:34.078-08:00PeekabooBeen a real struggle in an attempt to write anything worthwhile for the past month. Still working on differentiating the left half of my head/tongue/sublingual region in movement from the right side.<br />
It feels that it is getting slightly larger, but no dramatic breakthroughs.<br />
<br />
Interesting <a href="https://aeon.co/opinions/why-playing-peekaboo-with-babies-is-a-very-serious-matter">link</a> on the importance of Peekaboo<br />
<br />
Another below on<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/how-horses-read-human-emotions/471264/?platform=hootsuite"> horses</a><br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lyon Text', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 33.3334px;">
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The horses tended to look at the angry faces out of their left eye—a response <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'4',r'471264'" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18455205" style="color: #458cd5; text-decoration: none;">well-documented in horses</a> and in <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'5',r'471264'" href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0036076" style="color: #458cd5; text-decoration: none;">dogs</a>, indicating that an animal is engaging the right hemisphere of its brain where novel and fear-provoking stimuli are processed. The horses’ heart rates also rose more quickly when they were presented with the angry face. Being able to tell a smiling handler from an angry one is a useful skill for a domestic horse—being approached by a frown rarely results in happy consequences.</span></i></div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lyon Text', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 33.3334px;">
<br /></div>
tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-52956088947542937932016-02-09T06:09:00.001-08:002016-02-09T06:09:35.998-08:00Seeing is believingI have been planning on writing a post now for a couple of weeks but ran into a bit of a block and since I am easily diverted I have been following my twitter account (embarrassingly small) and posting on an economics <a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/">blog</a> that I follow. I very rarely post anything to do with economics in the proper sense just the occasional link to other's thoughts. I do post on a wide variety of things that I find interesting or informative. Ran across this <a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/">link</a> today. Just did the first couple of pages and I get the point that my visual sense is easily deceived. That is sort of the direction I want to take my next post but I do not feel ready. I am reading a fun book by Oliver Sachs, <u><a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/books-by-oliver-sacks/seeing-voices/">Seeing Voices</a>.</u> I wanted to finish it first but need to get back to it.tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-63190139227433555982016-01-31T10:17:00.002-08:002016-01-31T12:36:16.264-08:00Throne thoughtsFound a link to this <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/were-the-only-animals-with-chins-and-no-one-knows-why/431625/">article</a> on humans being the only animal with a chin. It goes into an evolutionary argument on why it developed. It seems obvious why, because how could we <a href="http://kavehadel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Thinker-and-the-Choices-Copyright-2011-Kaveh-Adel.jpg">think</a> on the throne without it. In my awareness <a href="http://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2012/12/differentiating-head-and-jaw.html">exercise </a>about differentiating the head and jaw I found that that I use the sublingual musculature differently on the left and right side of the midline. It feels to me the my left side musculature normal posture is more contracted to give the right more freedom and control. In fact in terms of felt initiated movement the left side did not exist but instead reacts subordinately to the right side initiated movement.<br />
<br />
To generate <a href="http://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2014/01/strumming-diagastricus.html">melodious</a> sound on the left it feels that I need to be able to allow the left side to vibrate or relax and contract rapidly. In playing with this area I have difficulty in getting the musculature to relax and lengthen. It affects the position of the mandible on the left as compared to the right. It is still developing but in lengthening of the left sublingual musculature the left mandible seems to extend more forward. The angle of the jaw on the left also relaxes and come forwards in response. This then seems to influence the left lateral and then the left posterior musculature of the neck. So in order to use the left sublingual musculature in a differentiated way I find there is a global change of use of the head.<br />
<br />tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-56941812919985131942016-01-26T05:44:00.001-08:002016-01-30T10:46:56.962-08:00Golf, great escapes, and magic tricksGolf is such a useless enterprise that I wonder about it's fascination. There have been many books written about the attraction and it's lore. The game has it's own rituals and customs that can get you banned from many a private course and the from public course at least a reprimand. It's expensive and time consuming. It surely is a waste of scarce natural resources on expensive lawn care. It's very frustrating with one moment hitting a great escape shot from an impossible <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDmhGVP41h4&index=2&list=PL3ZQ5CpNulQlfSsYp9ysxM-3gyo6tG9EC">position</a> and the next whiffing on a beautiful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldR9olprKvU">lie.</a><br />
<br />
One thing it does provide me with is a fertile ground for playing with the differences in my left and right side, even if it has not improved my bogey filled game. I can put my attention in my left hand and swing the club only thinking of it. In a way the right disappears as I actively concentrate on my left arm's position throughout the swing. My normal however is for my right hand and arm to dominate as I get caught up in the game and the left disappears. Much like a magic<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3412382/The-science-magic-tricks-misdirection-pausing-time-experts-reveal-illusions-mess-minds.html"> trick</a> I actively suppress what I am not paying attention to.<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Research suggests these enhancement and suppression processes are mediated by two different populations of neurons in the visual cortex – the area at the back of the brain that processes visual information.</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><br /></span>
Even though that is suggests that it is only the visual cortex that operates this way in the article, I think that a similar process happens in my speech and communication. I only have perception of the right tongue/sublingual/ throat/ and facial muscles to respond to the speaking communicating task appropriately and the left suppressed disappears. I have spent a lifetime at it so now the left is very difficult to 'find' and initiate movement in these regions.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-81966312578086533052016-01-20T09:07:00.000-08:002016-01-20T09:12:32.081-08:00Left Initiation SystemStill playing with trying to develop a sense of a left tongue as separate entity than the right tongue but have been unsuccessful. What is showing up is much different use of the left side of my head. What I find to be the most interesting is that I don't feel to be moving different pieces of the head individually but a system wide use of the head that feels to be left initiated. The movements are mostly tiny, poorly controlled but feel very strong.<br />
<br />
One salient point that comes out of the movement awareness work is that I often have found that I do not move in the way that I believe I move. I'm full of 'parasitic' movements or activations of my musculature that interfere with what I am trying to do. In trying to learn how in my youthful development, I stumbled on a good enough solution and habitualized that pattern. However, I have found even though I may discovered a parasitic movement it does not mean I have found a system wide way of bettering the action. Which leads me to continue the old pattern of movement simply due to the demands of getting things done.<br />
<br />
So the movements are interesting even though the 'left' tongue as a separate perceived moving entity remains out of reach.tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792880397249055214.post-92153415673998172102016-01-18T04:49:00.001-08:002016-01-20T09:09:34.844-08:00Manly communicationSaw a recent story that Apple was buying a <a href="http://www.emotient.com/">facial emotional reading company</a>. I am sure they are aware to a much greater degree than I am of the differences in the sides of face. On the home page of Emotient there is (for now at least) twelve picture of a gal expressing different emotions. Looking at most of them I find the left side to be less expressive than her right side. However here is a <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/images/uploads/richard-dick-cheney1.jpg">picture </a>where if find the left side of a face to be more expressive and probably accurate of the way I believe the person is<a href="http://mylefttonguetoo.blogspot.com/2014/12/would-you-touch-this-mans-food.html"> feeling. </a><br />
<br />
Almost like the right side expresses what he is trying to communicate (this is a bad idea) the left a more undisguised enmity. I don't know if I blocked out the left side of face because I did not want to see the raw emotion or that I found the right side to be a more accurate communicative device of what the person was trying to communicate. I lean to the latter, but as a male there was an unwritten rule when I was young when we were drinking beer and sharing our deepest innermost emotions that we <a href="http://www.bodylanguageuniversity.com/public/213.cfm">never looked at the others face.</a> In a way to let the other guy have room to not be put down for showing weakness or something not manly. The raw anger in Mr. Cheney's face is definitely manly, but I wonder if to see it is in a way to provoke more anger.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><i>In communication men tend to sit other side-by-side next to each or stand at some distance. Women sit face-to-face with other women or stand closer, indicating a more open and intimate position that help them connect with one another. For men, a face-to-face position indicates challenge or confrontation.</i></span>tghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05509401951200101202noreply@blogger.com0