Lizard

@Lizard@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How about the digestive system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, the digestive system (i.e., the full gastro intestinal tract) is considered as part of the “outside” of the body, acting as an external surface similar to the skin. The space that an object can travel through without crossing a cell membrane or entering blood or tissue is called “lumen”. So the same intuition as in the meme actually holds true here, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winning⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we sometimes tend to forget that our physical brain lives in a physical body, and the “abstract” thoughts and feelings we experience are very much physiological processes as well. The question aims at reminding us of this fact, drawing attention to any potential psychosomatic responses your body might exhibit to strong emotions. It is easy to repress awareness for these, so to me it makes sense for the therapist to try and dig a little deeper. They’re not doing it to annoy you, they’re trying to help you become aware of (or be more mindful of) your feelings and how they affect the physical body that is experiencing them.