somatically
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7.7
- adverb
- /səˈmætɪkli/
- Specialized
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somáticamente
- I believe it is because they develop a growing ability to connect with and trust in themselves and the relationship they have with their somatic educator, as they become more comfortably embodied through somatically based, sensory-motor learning.
- somatically based awareness
- somatically based
One, learning how to access your vulnerable feelings somatically, which means as they arise on a physical level in your body.
- One, learning how to access your vulnerable feelings somatically, which means as they arise on a physical level in your body.
Examples
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Becoming somatically aware of ourselves involves, in part, becoming aware of our movement and thus tuning in to our nervous system, which directs our movement.
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At first, she did not even realize what she had learned in her body—somatically.
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One, learning how to access your vulnerable feelings somatically, which means as they arise on a physical level in your body.
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When I work with students, I can actually feel poor writing in my gut; I am affected somatically.
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To have an integrated sense of self, incorporating both mind and body, one needs to develop a somatically based awareness from inside as well as outside the self.
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In my opinion, adolescent girls might benefit the most from somatic education, which helps develop a more integrated, somatically based autonomous self.
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The results indicate that the effects of disembodiment and SMA can be counteracted through empathic, somatically based connected knowing.
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Our disembodied, postmodern culture is permeated by a mind-body split that is based on a lack of empathic, somatically based awareness.
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When she danced, she felt the music somatically, experiencing every beat in her body.
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Meditating somatically can help you connect with your physical sensations and improve your awareness.
Synonyms
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2.1
Relating to the body rather than the mind or feelings
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7.2
In a way that shows how living bodies and their parts work
In a physical way, not as a spirit or idea
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Somatically comes from the Greek root soma, which means 'body'. You can see the same root in psychosomatic, where psycho- means 'mind' and soma means 'body', so somatically means 'in the body' rather than in the mind or in the cells that make babies'.