Performance

Athletic, sleep, and other performance metrics through the many devices are  easy to study, and the minutiae easy to understand.  Finding out why or how changes occurred 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 how to shift focus, time management, sleep, etc is to eliminate all distractions- technology, light, sounds, toxic materials, excess objects.  With nutrition, we would start eliminating the easy things, building up to elimination of all foods except organic whole foods, vegetables, fruit, water, some animal products, no dairy.

That’s the foundation.  Brutal.  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 see your triggers and how long it takes before some person, sound, food, pushes you over your edge.  And what do you do when you’re pushed.

This information is priceless as it becomes the footprint to start listening to our minds and bodies, understanding how intricately intertwined body and mind are.  Our power in improving performance is through understanding our intricately personal health, our threshold for endurance and propensity for collapse on whatever field, room, or relationship.  From there, we can build a database of information 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, which holds more neurons than our brain, 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.

Shifting from being affected by digital stimuli to stimuli from the environment; natural light, sounds, smells, whole foods and rhythms more aligned with seasons, days, nights, weather, our bodies release anxiety.  Our communal anxiety is our fear of collapse, decimation, apocalypse, collapse of human intelligence and decision making.  Through committed time in nature, simply, our ability to understand the decisions we need to make, the things we need to pay attention to can become really clear.

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

Both sound and light travel in waves, are picked up by our cells, vibrate/ affect our cells, and if we’re attuned, our cellular structure will reorganize in a position that’s more aligned with a healthy growth- they work together to heal, not in chaos.  In that state, we have access to more aspects of our brains, we have a larger range of intelligence.  We begin to see colors more multi-dimensionally.  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.

“One study published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine found that an hourlong sound meditation helped people reduce tension, anger, fatigue, anxiety, and depression while increasing a sense of spiritual well-being. The sound meditation used a range of Tibetan singing bowls, crystal singing bowls, gongs, Ting-shas (tiny cymbals), dorges (bells), didgeridoos, and other small bells. The main instrument used was the singing bowls for 95% of the session. People who had never done sound meditation experienced significantly less tension and anxiety afterward, as well as those who had done it before.”(LINK)

The more time we spend moving in nature, working with sounds that have evolved through thousands if not 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, so that explains why we understand and study what we do.  That gap in addressing women’s concerns has reduced scientific understanding of our mind/body connections to nature, sound, light healing, as these were not priorities.  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)

Performance for men and women can be increased through a clean, whole ecosystem, physical and emotional, that is depleted of 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.  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 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. 

Next blog, we’ll look at all the devices and how to blend them into your specific situation to build a whole ecosystem.