Core Emotion: Confusion, mental fog, overanalysis, disconnection
Primary Body Focus: Forehead, temples, eyes, brow center
Scientific Foundations
The prefrontal cortex, responsible for decision-making and executive function, becomes overactive under stress or anxiety. This can suppress bodily awareness (interoception) and increase dissociation. Eye movement practices such as EMDR stimulate bilateral integration and reduce emotional reactivity.
Meditation increases gray matter density in the anterior cingulate cortex, associated with focus and emotional regulation. Breath and attention practices help move energy from thinking to sensing, improving emotional clarity.
Main Focus
When the mind dominates, we lose the felt sense of being. This week supports the shift from mental overactivity to embodied intuition, reclaiming clarity from within.
By working with the brow center and eyes, we reconnect to a deeper seeing—beyond thought, toward insight.
This week combines the teaching of previous weeks, and begins to introduce students to the integrated communication channels of the entire body at once. At this point, we will begin to focus on integrating everything we have experienced into a coherent, new mode of being.
