Re-Investigating Your Self Concept

[Infinite Tsukuyomi]

It's funny I never considered myself a sports guy but have been playing soccer recently after being invited to do so. Now the guys have been expecting me to show up and wondering where I am if I miss a week. I discovered that I am still not really a sports guy nor very good. But technically I do play now. Sucking at something can suck but I do like to double check my self concept assumptions. 

[oOo]

This is an excellent subject to raise.

Most self-concepts are not truths more than they are frozen tests. That said, the deeper issue is that the state producing the belief often goes unquestioned, even though the state may be more important than the belief itself.

Human beings dissociate constantly. Sensation blurs, emotion loses its origin, and the nervous system generates meaning from fear, lack, identity, depletion, or avoidance, then calls it “me.” That “me” can then become the very dissociation that justifies avoiding what one would genuinely want to do if their nervous system, heart, and body were activated in the right way.

Only this year have I become vigilant enough to distinguish wanting something from trusting the signal that says I want it. Reopening self-study means not only testing beliefs, tho testing the state that created them. Today I was halfway through an extended training where one of my casual realisations was that I was unconsciously distracting myself periodically during, from strenghtening my devotion to the action. That coincided at the same time as noticing that every time I noticed x deactivation in my nervous system, the distracting habits began. Thats not bad beliefs, and often its not but they are an interface, thats a phenomenological bottleneck combined with not always knowing where to activate thr nerves system to either reveal the false condition or simply reverse it.

That is what I find exciting. Eventually, the cultural conversation may shift from “What beliefs make me give up?” to “Where did my nervous system deactivate, reactivate, or fail to activate in a way that generated this meaning-state, produced this justification, and led to this behaviour?”

For the first time ever in human history, despite this meeting ground slowly forming from centuries ago, it means we are shifting from second hand ideological density and socialised labels to training for phenomenological depth and nervous system mastery. I can't even fathom beyond a few thresholds or two, just the kind of incredible implications that will develop from this.

Beat wishes.

[LordFall]

Yes the future is exciting @oOo! Especially if AI manages to help human decouple their lives from labor then our potential will increase many times fold.

I read a buddhism book once and one the quotes that spoke to me is "if someone can enjoy something, you can too."