Buried / Enduring — compressed lumbar

Load is held low while the head moves ahead

This point marks the requested compressed-lumbar signature of buried/enduring organisation, with the posture's forward head treated as a related directional cue rather than a second fixed centre. The low axial anchor conveys effort held down and out of awareness in the menu's phenomenological language; it is not a claim that endurance is stored in the lumbar spine.

Sensitive / Withdrawn — collapsed chestOral — collapsed frontTough / Generous — armored frontBuried / Enduring — compressed lumbarBuried / Enduring — compressed lumbarExpressive / Clingy — inflated chest

Point 4 of 5 in Hakomi Character Strategies — Postural Holding Map

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Ron Kurtz, Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method (primary)

Hakomi Institute, Character Strategies and Character Theory (secondary)

Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, and Clare Pain, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (scholarly_modern)

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