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APPEARANCE (A)
🧍🏽‍♂️ A. Orientation : how much you are invested in your appearance, measures by how much & what kind of attention you pay it

🧍🏽‍♂️ A. Evaluation : beliefs about one’s appearance, positive-to-negative appraisal, such as satisfaction or dissatisfaction . Result of : how close or far way one’s opinion is between what we think we look like vs. our ideal image.

🧍🏽‍♂️ Afferent – describes things like nerves, vessels & arteries that lead toward or bring things to an organ
Efferent (think e as in exit) – is the opposite, body parts that carry or lead things away from organs or other parts

🧍🏽‍♂️ Alexithymia : the inability to recognize or describe one’s own emotions (emotional blindness)

🧍🏽‍♂️ Bodily self : A sense of self through which we experience & interact with the world. Our brain integrates & applies external & internal signals to form ‘bodily self-consciousness”

🧍🏽‍♂️ Body image : a combination of the thoughts & feelings we have about our body. A conscious image of the size, shape & physical composition of our body

🧍🏽‍♂️ Emotional Dysregulation : a mental health problem = trouble controlling your emotions, & how you act on those feelings. It’s when you to feel stuck or unable to make yourself feel better

🧍🏽‍♂️ Embodiment : using our bodily experience & processes to understand our own emotional experience, and that of others.
A state in which the mind listens to the body – feeling connected & attuned, exploring the relationship between our physical being & our energy. It’s he interaction of our body, thoughts, and actions, helping to understand emotional processing.

🧍🏽‍♂️ Disembodiment : experiences of losing track of somatic feeling, the body’s movements, or the relationship of one’s own body to other bodies. It’s a sense of being “up in the head,” so we lose touch with the present moment sensory-field, what is happening right here, right now.
When distracted, we don’t notice where the body is in space, our breathing, the sense of being grounded. (MORE….)

🧍🏽‍♂️ Interoception : the ability to be aware of internal sensations in the body, including heart rate, respiration, hunger, fullness, temperature, & pain, as well as emotion sensations

🧍🏽‍♂️ Mediator : a variable in a causal sequence between two other variables. The addition of a third variable to the X → Y relation, whereby X causes the mediator M, and M causes Y, so X → M → Y.
EXP: how well good grades (X) predict happiness (Y), but indirectly through self-esteem (M). 

🧍🏽‍♂️ Mentalizing / mental representation – a hypothetical image or picture which stands for a perception, thought, memory…. like picturing the numbers you’re dialing.  In psychological development, it’s a basic idea that represents oneSelf & significant others.  Mentalizing is an absolutely required skill needed to successfully navigate the social world.

🧍🏽‍♂️Orthorexia – an obsession with only eating foods that the person considers healthy, limiting too many ok categories

🧍🏽‍♂️ Priming : exposure to one stimulus can influence the response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. It work best when the two are in the same modality, such as visual priming with visual cues, & depends on either a positive or negative relationship between a priming & target stimulus  (MORE… )   (🌺 See “Kindness priming“)

🧍🏽‍♂️ Reflective functioning : intentional mental states that is our capacity to understand ourself & others in terms of feelings, desires, wishes, goals & attitudes.

🧍🏽‍♂️Representation : perception, memory, & cognition related to the body, updated continuously by sensory input. The mental image we create of ourself, made up of : body image, schema, superficial schema, model, structural description & body as distinct semantic domain

🧍🏽‍♂️ Representational reunion = mentally picturing the infant feeling of being positive & happy when mother returns

🧍🏽‍♂️ Reciprocity :  the tendency to return a favor or a benevolent action with another benevolent action (in 3 styles). Responding in kind

🧍🏽‍♂️ Reflexive self-awareness : the ability to experience oneself as an independent object. (around age 2 – to recognize oneself in the mirror)

🧍🏽‍♂️Somatics : is about the wholeness of a person – of body and mind. Our body holds so much information for us, it’s imperative we listen 

🧍🏽‍♂️ Synchronize / Synchronicity – two or more things working in harmony, by mirroring each other, either consciously or unconsciously 

🧍🏽‍♂️ Thinking : mental activity that can be experienced or manipulated, using symbols . Includes — imagining, remembering, problem solving, daydreaming, free association, concept formation….

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