a lot of people use these redundant modifiers like this
you don't need to put -al after -ic because they do the same thing
spatial - because spatic would be confusing and weird
circumstantial - because circumstantic would be weird
somatic - because somatal would sound weird
-al and -ic are both modifiers that turn a noun into an adjective. soma means body and somatic means "of a/the body", space means, you know... and spatial means "of space"
there is some cases where people are using -ical as well, but this is an illusion that the -ic was a noun modifier. magic is an example. you use -al to change it into an adjective because it already ends in -ic.
another one that people often misuse is semantic. semantic is already an adjective, though it is also a noun at the same time, depending on context. you don't often here anyone saying "semantical" because semantic does already work as an adjective, when paired with a noun. and further, "semantics" is the normal way to use the word, because meaning is rarely singular. a bit like how the word semantic itself has two contextual meanings.
oh yes, somatically is a valid way to form the adverb, in this case used in context with "feeling" which is a verb.
you don't say psychical, becaues psychic already is an adjective, but again like semantic also is a noun in context (really it has a fleeting noun "person", you call someone a psychic, and they have psychic abilities, you see that it serves as noun and verb in a different context, one with an article, one with a verb (to be - have is the past tense).
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