Somatognosia is the knowledge, awareness, of ones body. First arrives an emotion. I sustain it and allow myself to feel it physically. I try to focus on how it affects my body. Then there is the translation of the feelings through the brush . The hand is drawing a shape. It alters my position and creates new stimuli which may change the initial mood and the outcome of the painting. Somatognosy is this brief unstable state of mind