ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights how the physicality of the body, and the affectivity that impact it develop patterns of connectivity of the brain’s anatomical links that store and express implicit and procedural learning, and patterns of bodily experience (somatic states and somatic engagement to others) that become attached to the ways in which the individual grades her association of semantic meaning to certain perceptions, sensations, and actions, in positive, negative or undetermined ways, thus creating conditioned models of relating with certain themes. It is summarised information that places the body-proper as having central importance in the individual’s conceptualisation of reality, that is, in her capacity to form a notion, an involvement, and an interpretation of her own personal worldview, which is born out of relational encounters, being dependent on their constancy and quality to sustain specific ways of being and thinking. Finally, it exposes the capacity to exert a neutral approximation to the effects of emotional content as conducive of mental health, as the deeper justification for actions and/or meaning of events are rarely predicted in a holistic format, but mainly retrospectively reasoned upon and introspectively perceived, allowing abstraction to make the causes for predictions falsifiable or not.
