{"id":17641,"date":"2010-03-11T16:16:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T00:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17641"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:16:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T00:16:04","slug":"the-startle-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17641","title":{"rendered":"The Startle Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Freedom-Change-Frank-Pierce-Jones\/dp\/0952557479\"><em>Freedom to Change<\/em><\/a> by <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.alexandercenter.com\/jd\/alexandertechniquejones.html#Anchor1\">Frank Pierce Jones<\/a>, a professor of Classics at Brown University and a teacher of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_technique\">Alexander Technique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From page 178: The pattern of startle (which has been studied by high-speed photography) is remarkably regular. It begins with an eye-blink; the head is then thrust forward; the shoulders are raised and the arms stiffened; abdominal muscles shorten; breathing stops and the knees are flexed. <\/p>\n<p>The startle pattern is a model of other slower response patterns: fear, anxiety, fatigue and pain all show postural changes from the norm which are similar to those that are seen in startle. In all of them there is a shortening of neck muscles which displaces the head, and which is usually followed by some kind of flexion response, so that the body is drawn into a slightly smaller space. As in startle these postural responses cannot take place without the prior displacement of the head and the shortening of neck muscles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Freedom to Change by Frank Pierce Jones, a professor of Classics at Brown University and a teacher of Alexander Technique. From page 178: The pattern of startle (which has been studied by high-speed photography) is remarkably regular. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[21643,31647,21640,21641,21642,21644],"class_list":["post-17641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique","tag-abdominal-muscles","tag-alexander-technique","tag-high-speed-photography","tag-neck-muscles","tag-postural-responses","tag-response-patterns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17642,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17641\/revisions\/17642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}