Reply To: Si & Inner Sensory Experiences

[Faex]

Oh, go figure! I came here to start this discussion after the Dischord convo we started with @Bera (in which Hrafn's post here in the OP and many of the things he has said elsewhere were primary cited authority, ha ha!). Glad Auburn decided to open the discussion here where Hrafn and other Si leads (and JeSis) can also contribute.
The reason I remembered Hrafn's ideas/discussions is that it dawned on me that my recent (about 4-5 months) dive into the practice of somatic experiencing in a bid to heal my issues/trauma (I recommend it, btw!) might actually have been an attempt to develop SI! Bera has had the hunch that a whole host of issues she and I have been going through have been strongly Pi-related. It's why I remembered Hrafn's many descriptions of his somatic experiencing. I readily access the pings of my emotional register but I must make very deliberate efforts to "enter" my own body, as it were, and experience life "from within my skin" if I could put it that way. Bera (SeFi) also accesses her register but finds this other forms of somatic experiencing not at all attractive. She reminded me that @animal has been making this point severally! Finally I think I get what she's been saying.

@auburn, I suggest we add this component to Si's overall description but instead of calling it "somatic experiencing", we call it "somatic awareness". It adds a layer, I think, to our current understanding of Si's groundedness.