Neural Annealing (background)
Holding patterns can consolidate and smooth into defaults (annealing-style dynamics).
Building on previous concepts
All those CVH compressions and VCH holds can create tension. Annealing is how the system reorganizes to reduce conflict between latched patterns.
Concepts you've learned so far:
Felt experience
What does this concept feel like in the body and behavior? Read, notice, then try.
Neural annealing feels like a warming, softening process where rigid patterns gradually become more fluid and harmonious. You might notice this during meditation or therapy when old tensions begin to dissolve and reorganize into more comfortable configurations.
As patterns anneal, there's often a felt sense of 'settling' or 'finding the right place.' Conflicting tensions resolve into more stable, lower-energy configurations. This process can feel like puzzle pieces clicking into place or knots untying themselves.
Mechanism
What the animation teaches: The crossfade from jagged to smooth shows consolidation over time. This is how held patterns gradually reorganize into more harmonious, lower-energy configurations.
Neural annealing involves the actual restructuring of connection patterns to minimize internal conflict and energy expenditure. In vasocomputation terms, this might correspond to vascular tensions reorganizing themselves into more sustainable and harmonious arrangements.