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· Dec 31, 2021

i think perceptual control theory suggests that motivation and action arise out of having both 1) where you are right now and 2) where you want to be in your awareness. it’s awareness of the gap between the two that produces motivation and action, which seeks to close the gap

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playing around with it, it seemed that i was blocking certain intentions from my awareness, e.g. needing to pee, and also blocking certain facts about the space around me from my awareness, e.g. the location of the bathroom

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· May 31, 2020

here's what i've been playing with: bringing every "active" intention into awareness, imagining at the proprioceptive level how my body would have to move in space to act on each one. i've tried this 4 times now and every time one of the intentions becomes effortless to act on

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i also ran into this funny phenomenon where i had to become aware of an intention totally unrelated to going to the bathroom, in order to make it effortless to go to the bathroom

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· May 31, 2020

e.g. i was trying to get out of bed this morning. the "active" intentions i had to bring into awareness were:

go to bathroom

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take notes on laptop at this point it was *almost* effortless to go to bathroom

eat *completely* effortless to go to bathroom

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i don't think i wrote about this in the previous thread but i also had to do things like visualize a path from the bedroom to the bathroom, stuff like that. there's probably more things i'm forgetting b/c i've stopped doing this consciously

lots of fun stuff to play around with here, probably i'd have much better things to say about it if i actually got off my ass and studied alexander technique