What is neuroception?

What is neuroception?

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Working with your hands makes things happen in your brain

Working with your hands makes things happen in your brain

What is thinkering?

What is thinkering?

testing the linked database view

testing the linked database view

Slip-box: focus on thinking, instead of remembering

Slip-box: focus on thinking, instead of remembering

What it means to be a maker

What it means to be a maker

on survival

seasons for the creator

seasons for the creator

art from danger

art from danger

Rilke on experiencing pain

Rilke on experiencing pain

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The ANS has the ability to bring calm, to spontaneosly engage with others, and to navigate threat responses through social cues.

The ANS has the ability to bring calm, to spontaneosly engage with others, and to navigate threat responses through social cues.

Neuroception distinguishes safe from dangerous

Neuroception distinguishes safe from dangerous

Working with our hands allows for thought

Working with our hands allows for thought

Working with your hands makes things happen in your brain

Working with your hands makes things happen in your brain

When we really face the weight of our current reality, we have to begin to ask what comes next. It creates new opportunities to make a new world.

When we really face the weight of our current reality, we have to begin to ask what comes next. It creates new opportunities to make a new world.

When we make art, we are exploring alternative realities.

When we make art, we are exploring alternative realities.

Attuned relationships include rupture and repair

Attuned relationships include rupture and repair

Groundwork is a way of “showing up” - even without feeling like it.

Groundwork is a way of “showing up” - even without feeling like it.

Seasons aligned with stages of maturity & creativity

Seasons aligned with stages of maturity & creativity

Being a maker is about collaborating with reality

Being a maker is about collaborating with reality

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Making is available to everyone.

Making stuff improves our lives.

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Neuroception functions to evaluate the risk around us, without even being aware that we are doing it.

Neuroception works before the brain can form a thought.

Neuroception distinguishes safe from dangerous

Neuroception distinguishes safe from dangerous

Neuroception is at the heart of the polyvagal theory. It makes it so the nervous system can detect/assess danger in the environment. I