12/15/2025
Excellent research, proving what JFB MFR therapist have seen and felt for decades. They worked in parallel and now their concepts are completing.
"As a member of the Fascia research Society I am at the forefront of witnessing new concepts emerging from understanding the human body.
Yes, this understanding of the body is always evolving, and here are concepts currently being carried out by researchers such as Dr. Stephen Porges and John Sharkey that are sharing together to better understand how the body works.
Neuroception defined by Porges is the automatic and unconscious ability of our nervous system to detect, at any moment, whether our environment and the people around us are safe, neutral or threatening.
It's a biological process, not voluntary, that happens before we even become aware of what we feel. Our body continuously "scans" sounds, facial expressions, postures, movements, internal signals of the body, and adjusts our physiological state accordingly (rest, alert, protection, shutdown... ).
It informs us if we find ourselves in the presence of safety, uncertainty, or threat. This instant reading doesn't go through the thought: it mobilizes our senses, our posture, our breathing — and even our tissues, like the fascia. The fascia, precisely, has a nature called stochastic (fluctuating), .
"The sensory field of the fascia does not provide the same information each time." The fascia is a context-dependent dynamic signal environment. " John Sharkey observed. These signals are never identical: they vary depending on our emotional state, stress level, hydration, movement. This variability, according to John Sharkey, far from a flaw, would serve as a basis for the adaptation of the nervous system. Sharkey would always create that "pre-vagal tone" that would influence reading safety or danger signals through the vagal nerve.
In other words, our bodies would feel, anticipate, and adjust its state before we even realize anything.
In this perspective, the vagal nerve would never leave a blank page: it inherits the pre-existing tissue atmosphere in the fascia, then integrates, amplifies or adjusts it, before redistributing it throughout the organism. One could say that neuroception plays its part in a scene where emotional lighting is already set by the fascia.
Understanding this dynamic—variable fascia, alert neuroception—would help therapists better monitor the emotional or physiological reactions that arise spontaneously during the session and recognize the signs that suggest referring a patient to another professional; intervene sensibly when a client manifests a spontaneous emotional response; understanding how tissue, nervous system, and emotion interact in a continuous conversation." BetsyAnn Baron- original article written in French.
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