Physical Intelligence - Day 85

I did make a point of stressing the end of the journey to the young students in the room.  What I find most surprising is that this psychic disequilibrium is no longer just the final years of lives that were lived with an identity grounded by work and not by life, but are beginning to be felt much earlier or prematurely in one's life, just as illness that we think of as aged related are beginning to show up in the lives of the young.  People should not be dying of heart disease in their 20's and yet I have heard of people who did not make 30, despite the fact that the average life span is still increasing and will keep on increasing with improvements and breakthroughs in modern medicine and health insight technologies.

This shit is not psychology 101, it is how we come to relate with your physical environment and the most physical reality is being what is best called GROUNDING.  What is grounding than two major things :

1. Feeling comfortable in our own skin

2. Feel the blessing of being connected to a home called Earth

Even though this video from a young man called Louis Raskin could be considered talking about life, he is in reality talking about existence, because he is talking about other people's lives and their existence, not contemplating his own life as one end-to-end life path. 

He is dealing with being alone in the here and now and providing alternative tactics.  These tactics are not life strategy but finding meaning in the moment we have now.  Yet, I will give him credit for challenging social orthodoxy and find answers that do align with his own physical reality.  That he offers advice for others means he is still engaging existence.  Whereas my view is that I have no idea how you or anyone controls your own reality - other than the common thread is we exist.

I am here alone thinking these things and I am also aware of my physical reality.  I can even feel my fingers typing these very thoughts - I am fully conscious of both thinking in the here and now and appreciating the movement of my own fingers moving as my thoughts flow into my hands and then are being instantly transmitted via the keyboard to a digital screen.  Just seeing my thoughts be turned into writing and words on my computer screen is simply existence.  Having the ability to know if doing this is will influence my future reality is something I am deeply conscious of - not as a personal brand but because of the opposite - PERSONAL EMERGENCE.

We do not know what will emerge tomorrow or what it's emergency creates, but we can be prescient about the narrative that may unfold and that is where a few people have created sophisticated observations about fragility that even I find very tough to understand, and here an extreme example would be the thoughts of Nicholas Taleb and his "Black Swan" moments, as well thoughts about "Anti-Fragility"

Going to a Drake concert simply takes us out of a "RUT" and when we listen and dance to a Drake song, he is basically singing about the things we take as being "normal" that is simply existence, which is actually not the same thing as life.  If I am passing time because I have chosen to write this and want to waste someone's time because I want to change their life, I am simply creating another rut, because I am living that person's life for them, rather than they think about their own life and live with the consequences of whether they make decisions that exist in the moment or choices that are antifragile.  Either way it is either evading a difficulty in the present moment (which is escapism) or learning that the only thing life gives us to make birthing (or life growth) less painful is an epidural - that is we remain present.

Some things in life we can experience with an epidural and that is what personal branding is, it is merely an epidural, but other things we grow without one.  If there is one lesson that I have taken from my own life - it applies to women.  For all the wisdom that feels like one should experience natural childbirth - if I was a woman I can't think of any circumstance where I want life to be natural - otherwise the actuality of our existence is up to us, but seeing our life as a complete end-to-end view - that is what can make us decisions which seem we are giving up social life or trying to belong to a particular group - but it is the way we remain personally grounded and this engagement of delayed gratification is learning the pro and con of long-term thinking, and living in the moment physically.  For me life is whatever it becomes, but it can't become living as a copy of another persons life or our idols or gurus, because that was their experience and then it's only existence that matters when socially paint-by-numbers and that can also end up being dog-eat-dog life rather than one that makes greater sense as it emerges.