The prime conditions needed for the expression of our identity are generated at the biological level at the junction of the body-mind unit without the participation of thought processes. According to Toro, in the psychological expression of the genetic potentials and in the identity integration process the vivencia has priority. First comes the vivencia, and this direct experience in the here-now bypasses our cognitive minds.
Years of investigation allowed R. Toro to complete an inquiry about the correspondence between genetic potentials and the main human aspirations. The results were grouped according to similarities using a phenomonological method. Five groups containing the aspirations that were common to all participants were then specified.
Toro hypothesized that each of these 5 groups were a form of expression of our genetic potentials and named each of them with a term that encapsulated the aspirations contained, as follows
- Vitality - health, drive, will to life, joy
- Sexuality - sexual pleasure, reproduction
- Creativity - innovation, creation, imagination
- Affectivity - love, friendship, altruism
- Transcendence - connection to nature, sense of belonging to the environment, expanded states of consciousness
This is how Toro came to differentiate the 5 forms of expression of our human genetic potentials, define them as the five lines of vivencia, and include them in the theoretical model of Biodanza.
His thesis was that all aspects of human life traditionally considered as part of the psychological dimension had in reality a biological origin. In other words, they were generated in the heart of cellular processes, and then, through differentiation, reached the quality of impulses, drives and instincts, which were transformed in vivencias, feelings and emotions in human beings.
Adapted from a passage from Biodanza, by R. Toro