CCCI Part 2 Ch 7: Psycho-Physical Equilibrium

[Jeremy Chance]

1. When attempting to walk after an accident, how is my "physical" disability also a "psychological" one?

[Full text version, paragraph 7].

These attempts to walk would be made at a time when the subject was conscious of a weakness throughout the whole organism, of a comparative loss of control, of an interference with the psycho-physical equilibrium, of a lack of confidence, together with a whole series of hopes and fears in regard to what he will or will not be able to do, associated, again, with fears which have their origin in the pain which results from his incorrect subconscious attempts to use parts that have been injured. This whole combination of psycho-physical conditions constitutes a set of experiences which are new as compared with those present at the time of the accident. Each subconscious attempt to walk awakens consciousness of shortcomings, of strange and often alarming sensations, and tends to increase the real difficulties — viz., those concerned with that correct use of the psycho-physical organism in general upon which ”walking properly” depends.

2. What is the % of your conscious (non-feeling based) response to most stimuli? How can you know this?

[Full text, paragraph 14]

14. An increase in lack of equilibrium in what is called the ”physical” sphere will be found, in every case, to go hand in hand with a corresponding lack of equilibrium in so-called ”mental” spheres. And in any consideration of ”mental” and ”physical” phenomena it must be remembered that in our present stage of evolution on the subconscious plane, the response to any stimulus or stimuli is at least seventy-five per cent subconscious response (chiefly feeling) as against twenty-five per cent any other response, this estimate of the ratio of subconscious response being probably too low.

How can you know this? That's my question and I would be curious to know how people gauge such a thing?

cheerfully

Jeremy

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