MY NOW 1
SESSION ONE — SOMATIC DATA
IGNORING INTERNAL DISTRACTIONS
This is a link to the ‘Principles’ tutorial video - ‘My Now - Session 1 - Principles.’
The First Golden Rule:
“Now begins with everything, unleashing the superstitious primitive from the confines of a comfortable modernity.”
― Robert (Sherpa) Millar
Your gut needs to take a club to the distractions keeping you asleep. To accomplish that, start with everything to reach your Naked Now. I want you to imagine this guy in the picture looking up at the night sky, huddled around a fire, hoping to keep his people alive for another day. A strong right arm and a trusty club just isn’t going to get it done, every day, every season, every year. You need something more than yourself when faced with a now that has no comfortable layers of security between you and it. So we begin with your primitive ‘theory of everything.’ It truly doesn’t matter if this is that we are a two-dimensional simulation created by an artificial intelligence, that is within yet another simulation, or if you believe it is one of the pantheon of deities humanity has worshiped since the beginning. In the session, I call my theory of everything my mythology. Your primitive lacks a systematically laid-out theoretical framework for deep thought. It feels like this thing is the reason it can fall back on. It isn’t about convincing arguments for why it is right. Below, we will walk through how to start by gazing into infinity, move through the seasons, reach today, and finally arrive at Now.
PROFILE — SOMATIC DATA
Each session ends with the Somatic Exercise sheet. The highlighted section is your focus. The complete 31-page PDF is available on the landing page, along with the video tutorials.
Theory of Everything: (T.O.E) Write a word or short phrase that captures your primitive theory of everything. This becomes the first step in every subsequent somatic exercise practice.
Word of the Year: This is an ancient practice, one which my wife and I have practiced together for twenty years. Pick a word for this year, one that captures an overarching feeling. I am writing this in 2025, so our word is Simple.
Date: I’ve lived in America for 14 years, yet I still stumble when writing the date in the American sequence. 10/23/25. However, you write the date, use that format.
Somatic Data: Finally, choose a source to stimulate your primitive. Any source works, but I recommend ancient wisdom that's both practical and paradoxical.. One of the challenges of modern society is that we have thought through all the paradoxes in life and offered coherent explanations in their place. Our primitive self doesn’t trust clever answers. I use the book of Proverbs, which is part of the Judaic/Christian sacred texts. There is a specific version that is in vernacular English. The Message (MSG) - Version Information - BibleGateway.com. This site offers a free copy of that version. Proverbs has 31 chapters, creating the perfect model for this somatic exercise. Another one of our coaches uses 'Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader' by Marcus Aurelius.
Once you have completed these four steps, I want you to follow the reflection sequence below to discover if you are a Wolfhound or a Wolf. As much as it pains me to repeat the standard disclaimer, let's get it out of the way right now. I have to restate this with every single client. Wolfhounds hunt wolves! Both are apex predators and are devastatingly effective in their own context. These are metaphorical constructs that activate your somatic system. Yes, I am aware that if you press this metaphor too hard, it falls apart. So don't press on it! The distinction that matters: Wolfhounds pay attention to data that confirms what they already feel. Wolves pay attention to what feels contradictory. Your primitive operates with one of these two patterns. The Somatic Data practice reveals which one is yours. After Session One, both types of training proceed in the same manner.
In the next post, we'll explore Somatic Signals.
THIS IS NOT TRAINING. IT'S CALIBRATION.
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