17/11/2025
THE VISUAL FIELD
The space in front of you that your nervous system constantly scans, even before you consciously realise it.
Your body’s number one priority is simple: stay alive.
And to do that, the nervous system is always looking ahead, predicting, preparing, and reacting.
Just like pain, the body responds before something happens.
If pain only arrived after injury, we’d never avoid danger. Pain exists as a protective system — an alarm that fires early so you can change direction before damage occurs.
The visual field works in the same way.
When a stimulus enters your visual field (like a ball moving toward you), your nervous system reacts instantly — but here’s the important part:
🔹 It reacts based on past injuries, experiences, emotional patterns, and traumas still held in the system.
🔹 The body remembers what hurt you before, and it adjusts your movement, posture, and reactions to avoid repeating that same pattern.
🔹 This happens automatically, often before you’re even aware of it.
In Be Activated, we see this constantly:
When the nervous system is overloaded or stuck in old patterns, the body reacts defensively — tightening, bracing, collapsing, or compensating — even when the threat is small.
But once we reset the system and restore proper activation patterns, that defensive response calms down. The body becomes more efficient, more coordinated, and more resilient.
Your visual field isn’t just about seeing —
It’s a window into how your nervous system prepares you for the world, moment by moment.
This is why so many BeActivated techniques focus on clearing old stress, restoring proper sequence, and allowing the nervous system to respond clearly instead of react automatically.
If you're curious about how your nervous system responds to the world around you — come chat to us. Your body remembers everything… our job is to help it respond better.
