What is a matrix?
Each body site and level of consciousness in your system has a function that supports your survival and choice-making. Examples, the patella in your knee provides an attachment point for tendons and ligaments. The duodenum is a part of the small intestine and plays an important role in digestion. Your sinuses have to do with respiration and hearing. In many ways they are independent; each of them has its own resonance with particular emotions and mental constructs, and various kinds of external forces and stresses have acted upon each of them. So they have different degrees of reinforcements, modification and elaboration since their original activation and anchoring.
The above mentioned body sites are also active components of a nearly universal matrix relating to our experiences of shame. On the physical level alone, the matrix will include at a minimum the arch points, patellar tendon(s), the hip joints, the duodenum, lung(s), maxillary sinuses and self-identity complexes in the brain.
We all have differing degrees of wounding held as memory at each of these sights, differing degrees of awareness of those wounds and differing behaviors to help us cope. We also have personal beliefs about fault and responsibility.
Nevertheless, when they resonate together in response to the vibration of a specific intense emotional/mental experience, they form a subset of motivations and associations in the Body’s Map called a matrix.