Coordinated mimimicking

It'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.

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.
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Temple of pain

Quite 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.

Zygomatic 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 zygomatic bone. The movements are again small, poorly controlled but feel very strong.

Natural left botox

I have not posted in awhile. Just read this article 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.

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.

Quote from article

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.

Strongly Left

Just 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.

Peekaboo

Been 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.
It feels that it is getting slightly larger, but no dramatic breakthroughs.

Interesting link on the importance of Peekaboo

Another below on horses

The horses tended to look at the angry faces out of their left eye—a response well-documented in horses and in dogs, 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.

Seeing is believing

I 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 blog 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 link 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, Seeing Voices.  I wanted to finish it first but need to get back to it.