MY NOW 3
SESSION THREE — SOMATIC PLANNING
IGNORING INTERNAL DISTRACTIONS
This is a link to the ‘Principles’ tutorial video - ‘My Now - Session 3 - Principles.’
The third Golden Rule:
“We carry the hopes of the future; ignoring them creates distractions for our primitive self.”
― Robert (Sherpa) Millar
Session three shifts focus deeper, beyond the signal: from processing somatic information and transmitting your somatic signal to what you plan to carry somatically.
I’ve known top athletes who possess extraordinary muscle memory for the first two steps of somatic intelligence; they understand how they function somatically at a surface level. But they are asleep to what they are carrying around, which distracts their primitive hunter, even though it is clearly being overlooked.
This session explores those plans and identifies the two most compelling—extrinsic and intrinsic—that shape how you walk through this world. Here are my own somatic plans as an example. My extrinsic plan is Stage One. This is about ensuring my business can support my family in my old age. My intrinsic plan is 100 Strong. This touches on the fact that our son was born when I was 43, and I plan on doing everything I can to ensure I'm around when I'm 100 and still able to engage with him and his family. I realize we all carry more than just one of each, like some strange somatic ark. However, it is challenging to pay attention to too many things at once. One of each is as much as I carry at a time.
PROFILE — SOMATIC PLANNING
Reflection sequence:
The activation process brings itself to the foreground of your mind. The narrative unfolding in the Principle section activated empathic memories from your own lived experience. It takes effort and focus to delve beneath immediate signals to the deeper plans we feel worthy of carrying into this Naked Now.
Now that you have conjured up those lived experiences from your own memory that feel similar to mine, I want you to slow down, find a quiet place to sit, then close your eyes, put your dominant hand on your chest, and check how you felt when reading the Principles section of this session, the instruction, the images, the tone. Feel for the two strongest extrinsic and intrinsic plans/desires.
Now that you have delved into the somatic plans you carry, move into the practice section after the regular tension check. Losing sight of why you're doing these exercises means you don't wake up as effectively.
In the next post, we'll explore Somatic Stillness.
THIS IS NOT TRAINING. IT'S CALIBRATION.
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