Performance

How do we improve the quality of performance? Athletic, sleep, and other measured performances metrics documented through our devices are easy to study, and the data easy to understand.  Finding out why or how changes occurred in a run, or night of sleep, for better or worse, requires a slow process of changing one element or piece of data at a time. 

The easiest way to start improving qualitative performance and shifting focus, time management, sleep, etc is to eliminate all distracting intake- technology, light, sounds, toxic materials, excess objects and adjust information to subtle, calming information.  With nutrition, we would start eliminating the toxic intake, building up to elimination of all foods except organic whole foods, vegetables, fruit, protein, water, some animal products, no dairy.

That’s the foundation. 3 months of that environment, and the information you’ll receive is valuable.

From that stripped down version of yourself, you can see where the pain is, when and how your withdrawal symptoms appear, when are your sleep disturbances, energy spikes and drops.  In this raw state, with little defense, vulnerable without recourse to numb through food, entertainment, dopaminergic devices, we observe triggers and how long it takes before some person, sound, food, pushes you over your edge.  And how you behave when you’re pushed.

This information becomes the footprint to start connecting our minds and bodies, understanding how intricately intertwined body and mind are.  Our power in improving performance is through understanding our intimately personal health, our threshold for endurance and our potential for collapse/fail on whatever field, room, or relationship.  From our footprint, we can build a database of specified practices and tools to equip you to adjust, correct and heal.

In a position of learning, we can rebuild our immune system, clean our gut biome, holding 100 million neurons, work with our biology to recalibrate our nervous system so that we hear, see, feel, and think differently.  Through that we’ll then find that we need lower doses of artificial dopamine to be satisfied, lower doses of stimuli from all levels.

We can shift from being drained by toxic and digital stimuli to being charged by stimuli from nature; natural light, sounds, smells, whole foods and rhythms more aligned with seasons, days, nights, weather, our bodies release anxiety.  Richard Louv, a writer who coined the term Nature Deficit Disorder.

“The future will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.” (https://richardlouv.com )

Louv adds that our relationship to wild animals specifically is our link to learning about human nature.

“Louv interviews researchers, theologians, wildlife experts, indigenous healers, psychologists, and others to show how people are communicating with animals in ancient and new ways; how dogs can teach children ethical behavior; how animal-assisted therapy may yet transform the mental health field; and what role the human-animal relationship plays in our spiritual health.” (https://richardlouv.com )

Our communal anxiety is our fear of collapse, decimation, apocalypse, collapse of human intelligence and decision making, so we fight to memorize and collect information, shutting down our instrinsic intuitive learning processes, maximizing exposure to information that we can’t process or store, or remember.  Through dedicated time in nature, we increase our ability to process decisions we need to make, and our attention to details becomes very clear.

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration." — Nikola Tesla (LINK)

In nature, we become more aware of how light and sound travel in waves, how nature and wild animals communicate when in danger, in love, in heat, in fear. As a breeze flows through the trees, sound and light mimic that flow, endlessly caressing surfaces, bringing texture, color and smell into brilliant awareness to the point where we might feel a part of a garden, pond or ocean. Animals use these cues to live, move, escape, survive. Our body and senses are aligned, calibrated to the rhythms, the waves in nature. When we surrender to acutely aligning with nature, our bodies release hormones that initiate healing; endorphins, serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin. In that state, we heal rapidly.

We notice more, as both sound and light received by receptors that affect our cells, and if we’re attuned, our cellular structure will reorganize to heal, avoiding chaos.  Immersed in nature, we access a broader range of intelligence.  We begin to see colors more multi-dimensionally feel more multi-dimensionally, redefine how we respond to stimuli.  A flat red in nature is going to look more diversified in its range of reds, tones, textures.  Sounds are going to not only hear differently but feel as though they are affecting our cells.  There is plenty of research on the healing effects of sound and light. Our cells respond more effectively through the sounds in nature.  We heal, generate healthier cells, through nature’s tones and tools humans have used for millennia.

The more time we spend moving in nature, working with sounds that have evolved through millions of years, the more opportunity we have to maximize nature’s rhythms, sounds, light, and healing effects.

Data through MRI’s show treating brain tissue with sound waves has healing capabilities (LINK) and heightens activity in the part of the brain where we learn, absorb information more deeply.

Most research is based on men, limiting our data on nature’s affect on human behavior. Women’s interests have de prioritized scientific understanding of our mind/body connections to nature.  Research becomes the foundation of understanding our relationship to nature and our scope of knowledge and is slowly expanding.

 “…. A problem that actually manifested back in 1977 when the FDA formally banned all women of child-bearing potential from all clinical research. That ban remained in effect until 1993” (LINK)

Qualitative performance for men and women can be increased through a clean, inegrated ecosystem, physical and emotional, avoiding toxins, distractions and clutter, enhanced by natural sounds and light that follow the biology’s diurnal rhythms.

Through a strong connection with our inherent biological rhythms, the body gains equilibrium, broader capacity of performing, learning and healing at greater rates.   Then, we can develop a personal protocol to manage technology, social, and family demands.   This can only be done successfully with personal, individual investment.  It’s not something you can buy, nor does a specialist exist.  It requires curiosity, engagement, investment, and time outside.

Imagine consistent time in nature, your biological rhythms are ignited by microorganisms in the air, ground, sounds and light that our biology has evolved in tandem with for millions of years.  We begin to smell, taste, see, hear and feel more intensely, and have less desire for high digital dopaminergic hits.  Our focus is refined, we see so much more detail, and our attention span is expanding.  We are responsive to actual dangers, threats and calls for help, not conspiracy theories or apocalypses.  We love whole foods as we can taste the full flavor profile.  And because we go to sleep with the light, we wake up with the sun, our diurnal rhythm is attuned and we sleep a full cycle.  Our awake hours are exponentially more productive and proficient.  When we regularly swim in natural rivers, ocean, streams, we absorb minerals that have healed us for millennia, and our cells are reorganize to a new order of recover, healing and performance.

Anti-aging and longevity practitioners, spas, retreats and modalities are the rage.  Some of our fanaticism to longevity stems out of fear of dying, without understanding of fully living.  The spa is right out your door. 

But let’s assume you can’t be in nature.  You live on the 24th floor in a mega city, and to get to unbridled nature, or open park, you’d have to take a train 3 hours.  You slip on a VR headset, go to any wild place, absorb the sounds, and light, interaction between animals and the natural whole healthy ecosystem while you lie down on your bio mat or red light bed, or other devices that help to reset your nervous system.  You’ve planted a vertical green wall, taking up 0 square footage, growing floor to ceiling, wall to wall on one wall inside.  This is grown using a lighting system that mimics the sun and moon light, which you live by.  Your balcony is tiny, but you also have a vertical garden where you grow your vegetables.  So, in this urban ecosystem, you have a bath for cold and hot thermo-healing.  And soundproof windows, so you take in less urban noises, while your apartment is filled with nature sounds from any of the many studios traveling the world recording nature.