CVH: Compressive Vasomotion
Vasomotion acts like a compression sweep that pushes ambiguous patterns toward specificity.
Building on previous concepts
Remember how taṇhā tries to make things stable? CVH is HOW - by compressing ambiguous SOHMs into specific patterns.
Concepts you've learned so far:
Felt experience
What does this concept feel like in the body and behavior? Read, notice, then try.
Compressive vasomotion has a distinct felt quality—like a wave of pressure that moves through experience, collapsing uncertainty into specificity. You might notice this when an ambiguous situation suddenly 'clicks' into clarity, often accompanied by a sense of tension or compression.
When faced with ambiguous sensory input, the mind-body system applies compression pressure to force a specific interpretation. This feels like a narrowing or focusing, where multiple possibilities collapse into a single, definite perception or understanding.
Mechanism
What the animation teaches: The shape breathing shows compression pressure. The sweep line shows the direction of disambiguation. Notice how ambiguous patterns (left) get forced into specific interpretations (right).
Rhythmic vasomotion—the spontaneous oscillation of vascular smooth muscle—creates waves of compression that sweep through neural tissue. These waves physically compress resonant modes, forcing ambiguous patterns to stabilize into specific configurations.