(2) Chest expansion and general relief pervading the whole body.
The expansion or contraction is further modified by the _degree_ of
_regularity_ and by the _rate_ of the movements involved, as also by
the ease or _difficulty_ in the performance. So also, in the cases of
feeling whose tone exists but is doubtful in character, the bodily
situation seems to mean "lack of movement or change in any definite
direction." The feeling-tone and its vividness are interdependent and
reported as closely connected.
(3) A cringing all over and a "holding up of all activities."
(4) Abdomen contraction, chest and shoulders drawn in, hands clenched,
and jaws set.
(5) A feeling at once in different parts of the body of both process of
contraction and expansion.
(6) An incipient feeling of nausea in the digestive tract.
(7) A tendency to incline the head forward or backward, or to keep it
rigid, or to turn it aside.
(8) For touch, waves, reverberations, pleasant penetrating thrills
in the chest and abdomen especially, less frequently in the limbs,
occur. Sometimes these suggest expansion of the whole frame; sometimes,
even when also pleasant, the tendency to contraction and tension is
noticeable, but in these latter cases the contraction seems to be
rather definitely the calling into action of those general innervated
muscles which refer to the bodily situation of one when he intends to
go toward the pleasantly stimulating object.
(9) For unpleasant touch the reference or localization of the bodily
response is, when reported definitely at all, generally in the back,
described as chills not thrills, contractions always, contractions also
which often suggest shivers of withdrawal. These feelings also are
referred to the situation of the trunk of the body, and are felt to
originate in the small of the back, and in the back of the shoulders.
For two subjects there occur twitchings in the tendons of the hips and
thighs, and movements of the knee-cap.
(10) The pervasive bodily collapse, which seems to accompany feelings
characterized as depressing, altogether unlike the soothing feeling of
unwearied repose given by certain soft rich colors or by low deep full
tones or smooth yielding surfaces, is another form of organic response
which is often spoken of.
(11) The direction of the stimulus with respect to the normal position
of the body also seems to have something to do with the regularity
of the response, and with the general forward or backward tendency.
Tactual surfaces applied or tones sounded behind the subject do seem
to make the bodily adjustment more confused, and less pleasant. All
that subjects could say was that the position was felt as abnormal and
correspondingly less pleasing.
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