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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "Internal World (The Self)"
Split Justification: The Internal World involves both mental processes (**Cognitive Sphere**) and physical experiences (**Somatic Sphere**). (Ref: Mind-Body Distinction)
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From: "Somatic Sphere"
Split Justification: The Somatic Sphere encompasses all physical aspects of the self. These can be fundamentally divided based on whether they are directly accessible to conscious awareness and subjective experience (e.g., pain, touch, proprioception) or whether they operate autonomously and beneath the threshold of conscious perception (e.g., heart rate, digestion, cellular metabolism). Every bodily sensation, state, or process falls into one of these two categories, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Conscious Somatic Experience"
Split Justification: Conscious somatic experiences can be fundamentally divided based on whether their primary focus is on the body's internal condition, physiological state, or spatial configuration (e.g., hunger, proprioception, pain from an organ, fatigue) or whether they are primarily concerned with the body's interaction, contact, or perception of stimuli from the external environment (e.g., touch, temperature, pressure, pain from an external source). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary referent is either internal or external to the body's boundary, and comprehensively exhaustive as all conscious somatic experiences fall into one of these two fundamental domains.
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From: "Awareness of Internal Bodily States"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of internal bodily states can be fundamentally categorized as either perceptions related to the body's internal homeostatic balance, health, and drives (e.g., hunger, thirst, pain from organs, fatigue) or perceptions related to the body's physical configuration, posture, and locomotion in space (e.g., proprioception, kinesthesia, balance). These two categories are distinct in their primary sensory input and functional purpose, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive for internal bodily awareness.
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From: "Awareness of Physiological Needs and States"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of physiological needs and states fundamentally relates to either a deviation from homeostasis, indicating a problem, lack, or threat (physiological discomfort or deficiency), or the successful maintenance or restoration of homeostasis, indicating well-being or met needs (physiological comfort or sufficiency). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a sensation cannot simultaneously signal a problem and its resolution, and comprehensively exhaustive as any conscious physiological state will fall into one of these two fundamental domains.
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From: "Awareness of Physiological Comfort or Sufficiency"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of physiological comfort or sufficiency can be fundamentally divided based on whether the sensation is primarily focused on the resolution or cessation of a previously experienced or anticipated physiological deficiency, discomfort, or need (e.g., satiety from hunger, feeling rested from fatigue, pain subsiding), or whether it is focused on the presence of a positive, optimal, or thriving physiological state independent of immediate prior deficiency (e.g., sensations of vitality, robust health, deep physical ease, pleasant warmth not related to overcoming cold). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an awareness's primary referent is either a state of relief or an independent state of positive well-being, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of physiological comfort or sufficiency will fall into one of these two fundamental experiential categories.
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From: "Awareness of Intrinsic Physiological Well-being"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of intrinsic physiological well-being can be fundamentally divided based on whether it is primarily experienced as an abundance of energetic capacity, aliveness, and vigor (physiological vitality) or as a profound state of internal calm, balance, and deep ease (physiological equanimity). These two categories are mutually exclusive as a sensation's dominant quality is either dynamic energetic flow or static internal harmony, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of positive, thriving physiological states will primarily manifest as one of these two fundamental experiential qualities.
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From: "Awareness of Physiological Equanimity"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of physiological equanimity can be fundamentally divided based on whether it is primarily experienced as a settled, unmoving state of deep rest, calm, and absence of perturbation (physiological stillness), or as a resilient, flexible capacity to maintain internal harmony, balance, and ease amidst movement, change, or external demands (adaptive physiological equilibrium). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's dominant quality is either static non-perturbation or dynamic, responsive stability, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of physiological calm, balance, and deep ease will manifest primarily as one of these two fundamental experiential qualities.
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From: "Awareness of Profound Physiological Stillness"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of profound physiological stillness can be fundamentally divided based on whether it is primarily experienced as the complete relaxation and cessation of tension or movement within the body's structural framework (muscles, bones, posture), or whether it is experienced as the deep quieting and settled activity of the body's internal vegetative and regulatory systems (organs, nervous system activity). These two categories are mutually exclusive as they refer to distinct aspects of bodily experience (the physical structure vs. internal physiological processes), and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of profound physiological stillness will primarily manifest in one of these two fundamental experiential domains.
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From: "Awareness of Musculoskeletal and Postural Stillness"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of musculoskeletal and postural stillness can be fundamentally divided based on whether the experience is primarily focused on the complete release and absence of tension or activity in the body's contractile tissues (muscles), or whether it is primarily focused on the stable, supported configuration and immobility provided by the body's bony structure and overall posture. These two categories are mutually exclusive as one refers to the quietude of active tissues and the other to the stable form of passive structures, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of profound musculoskeletal and postural stillness will manifest primarily as one of these two fundamental experiential qualities.
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From: "Awareness of Muscular Release and Relaxation"
Split Justification: All conscious awareness of muscular release and relaxation can be fundamentally divided based on whether it pertains to the cessation of muscular activity that was initiated or maintained by conscious will (voluntary muscular effort), or whether it pertains to the softening, loosening, or letting go of tension and contraction that operates outside of immediate conscious control (involuntary muscular tension, e.g., habitual bracing, stress-induced holding). These two categories are mutually exclusive as the origin of the muscular activity (volitional vs. non-volitional) is distinct, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of muscular tension or activity, when experienced as releasing or relaxing, will fall into one of these two fundamental experiential origins.
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Topic: "Awareness of the Dissolution of Involuntary Muscular Tension" (W6369)