Module 2 : Deepening Biological Health

This is the second in a series of two courses modules. Continuing on from Module 1, incorporating and extending the practical exercises but going into more theoretical depth. This course has three 1-hour sessions introducing concepts and experiences that can potentially lead to resilience.

The core of the modules is a set of simple and practical awareness exercises using both the external senses and the internal senses (interoception).

The aim is to have a working understandng of how the body has evolved to run itself.

This provides guidance as to how best to help it self-optimise and return to health. exercises are given a very broad yet accurate-enough theoretical explanation, based on an understanding of health.  When the human nervous system is framed in terms of health it looks very different from one viewed from the point of view of pathology.  The idea is that – when we understand health, it is easy to generate more health because we know where we are going and what is of importance.

In contrast, a pathology-oriented understanding of physiology and nervous system function focuses heavily on what we are trying to get away from; and therefore has no clearly defined route back to health.The material and its application is “non-trivial” – i.e. it cannot be understood intellectually without direct experience, the direct experience unfolds over time with application, and as there is more direct experience then there is more understanding.