1. by somatic is meant a
pain or ache
sensation and also
misemotion or even
unconsciousness. There are a thousand
different descriptive words that could add up to a feeling. Pains, aches, dizziness,
sadness—these are all feelings.
Awareness, pleasant or unpleasant, of a
body.
( HCOB 26 Apr 69)2.
body sensation, illness or
pain or discomfort. "
Soma" means
body. Hence
psychosomatic or pains stemming from the
mind.
(HCOB 23 Apr 69)3. this is a
general word for uncomfortable physical
perceptions coming from the
reactive mind. Its
genus is early
Dn and it is a
general, common
package word used by Scientologists to
denote "
pain" or "
sensation" with no difference made between them. To the
Scientologist anything is a somatic if it emanates from the various parts of the
reactive mind and produces an
awareness of reactivity.
Symbol:
SOM.
(HCOB 8 Nov 62)4. the
word somatic means, actually, bodily or physical. Because the
word pain is
restimulative, and because the
word pain has in the
past led to a
confusion between
physical pain and mental
pain, the
word somatic is used in
Dn to
denote physical pain or discomfort, of any kind. It can mean
actual pain, such as that caused by a
cut or a
blow; or it can mean discomfort, as from
heat or
cold; it can mean itching—in
short, anything physically uncomfortable. It does not
include mental discomfort such as
grief.
Hard breathing would not be a somatic; it would be a symptom of
misemotion suppression. Somatic means a non-
survival physical
state of being.
(SOS, p. 79)