First, diet. Responding to leg cramps, I added a morning teaspoon of butter oil / cod liver oil blend back into my regimine of rice, bottled water, shrimp, chicken. This produced a clear boost in general health, including energy, focus, IQ, sleep, skin, and the cessation of cramps.
For my next refinement, I’m thinking alternating protein source each meal to reduce overeating. A shrimp rice chicken meal produces a tendency towards overeating and lost post-meal productivity. Causal factors are the fixed size of chicken breast, the urge to balance it with sufficient rice, and the desire to eat a lot when bulk protein is present. By contrast, a rice and shrimp meal is very difficult to overeat, and creates long lasting satiety. However, too many rice-shrimp meals in a row reverse the satiety effect, as the body craves bulk protein. The solution, I think, is to alternate between shrimp-rice and chicken-rice. Neither is too satisfying since neither represnts nuitritional completeness, but averaged together they provide a full complement.
Secondly, I’ve reached a new level of koan synergy, and thus emotional/social performance. The most salient difference is the reawakening of protagonistic awareness, which I think has a tendency to vanish (except at a purely analytical level) for traumatized deepsocks. Naturally, the innovation also carries nice productivity and life enjoyment benefits.
Pragmatic iteration has evolved my koan groupings into something that doesn’t conform neat psychological divisions such as left/right brain, mind/soul/spirit, or state/long-term. Perhaps in the process of explaining it I’ll come up with something, but right now I’m having trouble describing the meta-structure.
The latest edit ocurred on the wrist koans, but I’ll give the whole set for clarity:
Left hand center:
cross – symbol of christian faith
crescent moon (mostly black globe) – symbol of dark enlightenment, silent planet, etc
“war” – relationship to Earth
right hand center:
halo – justified by faith
bone flute – thal
“Home” – tribe
center (half on left hand, half on right hand):
heart surrounding text:
TT – targeted tongues
cc – corpus callosum
HD/RR – hiiperdoro, rest and relaxation
left wrist:
savortude – portmanteau of savor and gratitude
vpreneur – portmanteau of value and entrepreneur
right wrist:
ohmoe – nausicaa valley of winds reference to large armored gentle/dangerous beasts
ambience – background monkey stimulation and environmental pleasantness
What I can’t figure out is why this stuff works, grouped as it is. It’s like the “mimsy were the borogroves” poem – a structure just out of explanation’s reach.
I get the left wrist, in itself. I hit puberty and lost the ability to savor/enjoy the moment, at least whenever my willpower was online. This first word is like a warm bath, slipping in, after that long cold deprivation. But vpreneur is the telos that confirms and legitimizes it. Rather than an entrepreneur for $$, the more generalizable mission in life is to create value, all classes. A necessary component of this is the inner life, the fostering of personal enjoyment. Thus I legitimize the simple pleasure my innate severity sought to deny.
It seems as if each hand needs something hard and something soft to balance out. Thus the middle left contains the high purpose of the Kingdom, yet also the cynic’s detachment of darkness, and after the firm resolve of war nonetheless.
The same rule applies to the right. Sweet Thal music, made permissable by salvific grace. Balanced below by the wrist’s psychological firmness – the refusal to deflate, to drop into toxic perma-combat mode. With the gentle, indulgent support beneath of a monkey-pleasing ambience – I need not maintain the Ohmoe by sheer will.
Yep, both hand-wrist sequences are a progression of hard and soft, each permitting and leading to the next. I guess that’s the answer – not leaving psychological rough edges that create repressed eddies swirling into dysfunction. The absence of hard categorical lines, the interblending, is akin to the smoothing and tumbling of river stones.
Then there’s the middle hand symbol. This used to be my “always-on” set, and I guess it’s still more immediate, while the others are concerned with deeper processing issues. But I can’t say I live there anymore; it’s just one more piece that blends with the rest.
But of course, according to the river-stone theory, no cluster should stand clearly apart or have sharp edges.
This is very unlike something I would design. But of course, I didn’t design it.
I guess I know I’m done (for the moment) when adding or taking away anything creates more eddies than it removes.
I don’t think the protagonistic awareness phenomena can be added as an explicit koan; it seems to arise spontaneously in the absence of trauma.
If you have no idea what any of this means, just read Anna Karenina. That is a deepsock wrestling with vast unprocessed problems of toxic modernity. It is quite crippling for him. He eventually retires to a happy countryside life and ceases to struggle against society. But even that option no longer exists today (and woe to his deepsock children.)
Heh. I just realized that I’ve essentially been re-solving Tolstoy’s problem. First Kant, then Tolstoy. Plus perfecting the baseline diet and taking David Allen’s model digital.
Now I get what I’ve been doing all this time. No wonder it took a while.
So, in short: if you don’t get any of this, it ain’t me.