1. E n t r a in in D a
Me mbra ne ,
E n t r a in in t h e B r a in !
A C rash C ourse I n C oherence…
Mark R. Filippi, D.C.
2. Tim e to kill a s acre d cow…
"Health is the capacity to cope with the
human reality of death, pain, and sickness."
Ivan Illich
3. S o now wh at?… N e w M ath
to
C h aos Th e ory C oh e re nce Th e ory
(1 970’s ) (?)
4. Th e 201 0 C oC o
S till C le ar As M u d !
I defined coherence to the panel of experts as
communicating without effort
Let’s just say there wasn’t much
coherence at the Coherence Conference…
(link)
I’ll let Karl sort this
all out for us…
“It’s not space & time…
it’s a spectrum!”
IOW…interdigitate
(link)
5. S e e ing It, F e e ling It
“Salutogenesis is a term
coined by Aaron Antonovsky
(1987) in his aim to
understand what keeps
people healthy. It is derived
from the Latin world ‘salus’
that means health or well-
being. The concept is now
used in the context of
patient centered medicine
focusing on the health
promoting resources of
patients rather than on
pathogenic factors.
6. Wave s , Waving With in Wave s …
‘Heart rate variability is the result of a dynamic dance
between the two major branches of the autonomic nervous
system, whose job it is to control the functions of virtually
every organ and every physiological system of our bodies,
and it goes on without us being aware of it…” Dardik goes on
to say, “Heart rate variability is a window onto all
physiological functions.” – Roger Lewin Making Waves
7. F rom S p lit to F it…
The question that needs to be asked according to Antonovsky is: What keeps people more healthy and less
ill on the health/illness-continuum? Antonovsky drew attention to the psychosocial factors influencing a
person’s ability to keep healthy. He identified key factors in persons who stay well even under stressful
circumstances, for which he coined the term Sense of Coherence (SOC). The Sense of Coherence is
comprised of a…
· sense of comprehensibility
· sense of manageability
· sense of meaningfulness
…in a person’s life. Antonovosky understands the sense of coherence as “a global orientation that expresses
the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that one’s internal
and external environments are predictable and that there is a high probability that things will work out as
well as can be reasonably expected.” (Antonovosky 1987)
D oe sn’t this sound vitalistic to you?
9. O ne S om a…
Sentience: ability to feel or perceive subjectively…the
readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or
undifferentiated consciousness
Sentience happens when anticipation becomes participation -
when self and surroundings are re-united
10. M any Wh orls …
Winnie Dunn
Self-regulation is governed by things like our rest/activity and
sleep/wake cycles, the changing of the lunar phases, and the
migration through the seasons. We also have to deal with the
disconnects we cultivate just by living in contemporary life with it’s
demands on our time and energy, the rigors of business commuting
and leisure travel, and the strain of being tethered to a
chronoscopic world of technology that ignores these ‘facts of life’.
11. M oon O ve r M atte r…
1) Your emotions arrive in you, not from you. It all comes down to physical shifts in attention.
2) Your identity exists outside your physical body, which uses experience to lock into it.
3) Your feelings are a blend of memories and experiences of both of those recurring events.
13. K e e p ing it S IM P LE S …
Link
*How you function over a year, is reflected in how you adapt over a season.
*How you function over a season, is reflected in how you adapt over a month.
*How you function over a month, is reflected in how you adapt over a week.
*How you function over a week, is reflected in how you adapt in a given day.
15. WWTH M D ?
C o-ord inate : M ind + Bod y = S e lf C o-
re late : S e lf + S u rrou nd ings = S e ntie nce
C o-h e re : S e ntie nce + S ou rce s = S om a
C o-cre ate : S om a + D om ains = S ocie ty
