Posted by Carmody
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Someone asked me a question and the reply is good for all, as reminder or general data, whatever the case may be.
On finding and maintaining peak moments, so they are not lost. To move forward within them, within their context.
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In my experience it is the same effect of learning a new skill. It takes time for the neurological changes to take hold, so that the reflexes become natural and flow freely.
In this case it is the new information that has to take hold and flow freely. The new thinking has to take hold and flow freely. Like physical workouts, it takes repetition and constancy to make it take hold, and when we slip back into no work, for too long a time, we lose that skill, we lose that health of the body, that strength of the body.
Neurological change is the same in that regard of how it happens.
I've had that happen quite a bit, where I'll have peak moment a peak realization, and it will slip away. To feel it slipping away, as it is just revealed. Nothing evil about it , nothing about contrary influence (entities, etc), unless you can call the context of relation to and of the rest of the world ....being the thing that causes the fall back or slip back down the slope, from that peak moment.
Sometimes, to write peak things/moments down, this can sometimes help. But they can also sound and look like gobbledygook to us when we read them back later on, as the connectivity moment is gone and the context is missing.
The deal is that it is not like driving down a road and then stop the car and put a marker in the soil. The car may hold it's own but our mind cannot. Not immediately, at least. The mind is, metaphorically speaking, on a slope. Trying to drive up a slope. and it's brakes are weak, and subject to failure, if there is no regular and constant maintenance. No matter what one does with their brain, it is always on a slope. Either parked on it, or driving up it. Or slipping backward. There is no resting plateau, in reality, there is only a given short rest time that we might, though desire...mistake for a plateau. The slope is a constant and rust is never sleeping.
It is neurological exercise, creating both the actual pathways, space and potential, so it is of the mind's needs and ways. How it operates, is key to dealing with the variances in condition. Food, health, good mindfulness, good exercise so the whole machine/body is running like a top.
Not being involved in degenerative mental processes which hamper the attempt. Arguing with the world, being in conflict in the given environment, for elevating the mind.... is like eating a box of donuts when you are trying to get strong, healthy, capable, and slim.
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This is tied to why 'life on a smart phone' is dangerous.
It seems like a larger world, at first, but in fact, it is like learning to drive a car, which is a limited skill set that has no future beyond itself. It does not open doors beyond it's limits, it curtails intelligence into a repetitious rut shutting off neurons which previously explored the world, in order to open one's vistas into potentials, potentials in newness and variance, unknowns. New tests and scientific studies are showing that 'life on a smart phone' is dumbing people down.
The open world potential of a human mind...is neurologically lost, neurologically removed ...exchanged...for a small comfortable repetitious circle.
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I must be in the right place then!
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