At any point we all have a view of the world that sort of works. It is basically an expectation of how your body will react when walking on different surfaces or how food will react when you cook it a certain way, or how different people will react in different circumstances. All that information is stored in several layers within you in different layers . Those layers were laid down from conception and ideally continue to grow to this day.
Here is a very basic example of these layers. If you were to look at a framed picture, you would be simultaneously seeing the frame as background as you look at the details within the frame. The frame in this analogy would be what we call the posture layer. The details would be the focus layer. When listening to someone speak, you are hearing with one layer the tone of the sound as background as you pick up the meaning of the words with another layer. If you were to lift your arm up to fix a light bulb, you would likely require very little attention to lift the arm, which allows you to put a lot of attention to turning the lightbulb. With each of these examples one part of the interaction is done ‘grossly’ with minimal precision, allowing the more precise control of the other part.
There are multiple layers of processing, but for now we are just separating them into ‘gross’ and ‘precise’. These gross and precise/fine systems describe the actual lens that the person sees the world with as opposed to the actual world. For example if a three month old looked at the framed photograph he or she would only see the square frame because that is the only lens that had been developed.
But what would happen if the inverse were true? Someone had an underdeveloped ‘gross’ system? This is the most common reason for chronic pain as feeling anxious/overwhelmed and always seems to lead to an overdeveloped fine system. The act of zooming out and putting less relevant things into the background doesn’t perform and the person is like an excessively high resolution camera. It is not hard to imagine that this will lead to a sensory overload. This person with a weak ‘gross’ visual system will tend to have a weak ‘gross’ auditory and kinesthetic system.
Pain processing parallels visual and auditory processing. Physical injury notifies the person for obvious reasons. As the injury recovers the sensory experience is transformed at the same time. At first it is always on your mind and you hold your arm very carefully. After a while it hurts less and you start to forget about it. The actual experience of the injury is separate from, although related to the actual injury. The pain is supposed to be forgotten at the same time the tissue is recovered. The forgetting is a process of transferring the information from the foreground, then delegating to the background. There is a very precise process of becoming less aware of something that is the inverse of becoming more aware of something. But is a person with a weak gross system, this process is very weak. Chronic pain would be an absolute guarantee in a person without sufficient neurological organization except for the fact that the body has a way to sort of fuse the tissues in a process we call degeneration which is natures cure for poor pain processing.
So neurological organization is your body’s ability to do simple tasks in the background and put relevant things in the foreground. That can be developed at any age with proper training which is the entire goal of our kinesthetic training.
