if you can't notice all the ways you could make a choice, you will default to the choices that feel familiar
the choices that feel familiar are, by definition, choices you have already made a lot
being unable to make unfamiliar choices, therefore, is symptomatic of being stuck
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adding the Alexander Technique idea of Faulty Sensory Appreciation is interesting here
"the things that are familiar will feel 'right', even if they don't map onto reality"
so things you do repeatedly 'feel right', even if they're wrong, and you can't notice the way out
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all this expansion of awareness stuff gives you the capacity to notice when:
- choices feel familiar or unfamiliar
- to notice what's actually happening in the world despite how right or wrong it feels
- to stay in the unfamiliar space and allow a transformation from a new choice
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tempted to write about this in the context of 'tunnel vision', which is another way of saying collapsed awareness
everyone knows that when you have tunnel vision, you kinda enter into a state of choice unconsciousness until the tunnel vision stops (when awareness expands)
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just realised that a clear way to communicate this is to talk about what it's like to forget and remember something
when something is forgotten it is by definition not in awareness so you can't think or do anything about it
when you remember, suddenly all that becomes available
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there's also the interesting phenomenon of *knowing that you've forgotten something*
in this case what's in awareness is the knowledge that there exists something that is currently not in awareness
and you normally need to just wait (make a void) and allow the thing to appear
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another, perhaps one of the most pernicious cases of this:
if you can't 'notice', in each moment, over and over, the possibility that you might be wrong, you will be held in a fixed belief system until something sufficiently powerful from outside breaks you out of it
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Alexander Technique is the skill of never letting yourself get trapped like this
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another, perhaps one of the most pernicious cases of this:
if you can't 'notice', in each moment, over and over, the possibility that you might be wrong, you will be held in a fixed belief system until something sufficiently powerful from outside breaks you out of it
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this is relevant - "the idea that I can/am allowed to feel good" itself needs to be noticeable for it to be possible?
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I keep noticing something interesting about myself, which is that while I am now sufficiently skilled at the psycho-technology stuff to rapidly change my moment by moment experience...
so I can increase ease, happiness, self love, etc a lot
I often just forget I can do it?
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It’s funny how you’re restating engineering concepts in somatic terms. Observability is the engineering concept you want here and might be useful as yet another marketing hook. Knowing you’ve forgotten something is a bit like having to interpolate a gap in a signal.
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Yeah that is interesting… I’ll look into observability and see if it triggers any new angles
maybe if I dig into this properly my physics degree will turn out to be of some use after all
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