Finding a Fascial Pattern: The Nanosecond of Almost-Engagement

The basic benefit to using imagination is to notice, in that pre-initiation, who gets recruited. For instance, if I imagine coughing, I can feel tightening in my tongue and some weird muscles under my chin I hadn't been aware existed. Then maybe a hint of a ghost of a start of a grip in my belly and then the diaphragm. But if I coughed and then tried to figure out what went into it, I would hae no idea about the grip under my chin. If I prepare to go about solving the cube root of 7,862—not doing it but getting ready to do it—I feel that my eyes want to converge. Likewise, if your scalenes are chronically contracted, you want to notice the nanosecond before they actually contract--well before you would actually tilt your head. In this way, you know what you do. And if you know what you are doing, you can do (or let go of) whatever you want.