Posture Release Imagery

Are you finding some success with the type-specific imagery available on this site? Have you experienced a variety of responses from the different forms (1a -red, 1b-blue, 2a-green, & 2b-yellow)? If so, then this post is for you. You are becoming a more advanced posture release imaginer! 

I will explain each illustration/chart a little bit and leave you to figure out the rest based on your current experience of the type-specific imagery and what is available to look at again on that page. If you have comments or questions, you can always email me or write something on the blog, which virtually nobody does.

This first chart above is divided into four sections. The individual and smaller creatures toward the outside of each section represent the specific type that section refers to. The depictions of overlapped creatures, which are larger, represent the tonal/shape variations of the left and right sides of each of the four types. In other words, the simpler dorsal-vental figures are not absolutely accurate. They have different tonal qualities on each side of the body. People are not exactly the same on the left and right sides. In fact, to some extent, we are opposite of each side. We all are, according to my thinking, one of the four types but those four types are actually more complex than the simple depictions represent.

See if you can imagine that, for instance, you are basically the 1a-red type but have a tendency to be more like a 1b-blue type on your left side and a 2a-green type on your right side. And try the other versions as well. This is not easy… but some success can give you a much greater experience of a nicely released and yet toned self. Along the way you may feel strange, crooked, and so forth, but with time you will see that these additions of lateral variation to the four types actually takes you to a deeper experience of them and their value. The experiencing of your own type, however, will typically and understandably be the least rewarding and will possibly be downright unenjoyable. Give that one up. You are already too good at living that form. 

The chart above is just another way of playing with the left side and right side variations that are actually part of the four basic types. The white version on the far right is the neutral model from which the various versions were formed.non-existent type, which is dorsally white, is merely the model from which the other forms were made. The upper row of types has influences on its sides of the types overlapped in the lower row.

This last chart I will let you just study. It may clarify something for you… and it may not.

Good luck.

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