THE AUTONOMICS TRILOGY ⌖ BOOK THREE
Body as Verb
THE GENIUS OF THE VERTEBRATE MOVEMENT SYSTEM.
There is no such thing as the sympathetic nervous system. You have been taught a neuro-anatomy that confused anatomical with physiological systems, and partitioned the nervous system in the wrong places. Vertebrates have a MOVEMENT system. And this is a book of joy.
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A BOOK OF JOY
Know thyself as movement, thy body as verb.
Existing in a vertebrate body is such a fundamental substrate of lived experience that it's difficult to understand what it means to wear a human body outside of this construct. This volume explores the autonomic intelligence of that embodied system, and what it means to trust the billions of years of evolutionary history hard-wired into every living, breathing body.
By regarding the body as a verb — energy in motion — rather than a noun, a fixed thing, the book provides language for the third autonomic facet of dynamic lived experience. Blending science and poetry, neurophysiology and social commentary, philosophy and polemic, it is the conclusion to the three-part exposition of autonomic systems begun by The Neurobiology of Connection and continued in Ground.
“Autonomics is not simply the evolution of a discipline– it is an entirely new paradigm.”
––Peter Barus
Author of Matters of Life and Death: Essays in Budo
THE AUTONOMICS TRILOGY ⌖ A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE ON EACH AUTONOMIC SYSTEM
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The Neurobiology of Connection
Learn to grasp and move the deepest and most powerful levers that govern your moment-to-moment experience of wellbeing.
YOU ARE HERE
GROUND
Understand how modernity itself is elaborated from a 12,000 year history of deviation from safety and connection; how this has uprooted us from the earth; how this uprooting is the source of chronic illness; and what we can and must do to transform it.
Body as Verb
There is no such thing as the sympathetic nervous system. Rather, there is the genius of the vertebrate movement system.
THE AUTHOR
Natureza Gabriel
is Founder of Hearth Science and Developer of Autonomics, built with more than 100 advisors across 25 disciplines of wellbeing and 24 cultures. The Neurobiology of Connection is the foundational text in our work – the book that introduces the model that our work is built around.
“Approximately 80% of adverse health outcomes in primary care are stress-related. We now have an extra-ordinarily refined cartography of their source both in the body and in the culture.”
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