A different system....in the face of Covid.
What do we know may be helpful for covid?
- Fresh air - outside
-Sunlight - Vit D - esp outside
- Breathing practices (esp in fresh air)
- Less Stress
-Zinc and various minerals best found in healthy foods
Stress levels play a role as well as general overall health.
Things such as healthy gut biome (sauerkraut/ kombucha), NAC, Fenugreek, Elderberry, and other items may decrease and improve the situation as well.
Time to be outside, to relax, to meditate, to take these supplements & exercise are important.
Perhaps among greater ability to choose your schedules and live well would be beneficial.

we become what we experience... but if our "will" or "possibility" is such we can realize our experience is not who we are

What/where is the voice that is inside our minds, what if we differentiate different voices, or notice the voice of our stomachs or bodies... what of the ability to go beyond or against or with that voice - if we remove some of the decision making what do we make room for.
Is this part of what is behind the less stress when we pre-plan the meals ahead of time...
Where does this all come into doing or not doing what our mind desires and which we know is best for us.
The easier path - which is not easier, healthier, or the like... yet keeping the concepts of restfulness and relaxation in the process of what we do .. do

The concept that the more decisions the less free will is an interesting perspective.
Could it be extrapolated, changed, and all that stuff to be part of how contemplatives, monks, and the like "think" better or have more awareness/control.
When we are able to automate one thing we are given the freedom to focus on another - if you do not have to worry about where your next meal is coming from you can think differently.
So then what of the encounter with the cycle of desire and suffering that the Buddha and Buddhism speak of.
All life is suffering - suffering is caused by desire - there can be an end to desire - the way is the 8-fold path.
But can only one tradition have the answer here - or is it that different traditions have truths of different areas.
Habituation / Second nature - Aristotle & Confucius.

Going through the "closer to truth" series on youtube and doing stream of thoughts there... not likely to repeat here.
Using achievinglife Debbie McDermitt to do it.

Do we need to ask these questions? Why yes or why no?
do they get in the way of, help, or both the question of the meaning, purpose, and act of living life?
What is needed to live - why go further, why do less?
why would some go further and some not go further
If we find truths are they better than not knowing.... the quest of ease and the quest of knowledge....
is it a choice?

At what level is the determinism - are there "degrees/factors" of such...
Is this determinism sentient (or conscious) and to what degree or is it free? Circular here.
Looking at the roles of karma, fate, chance, or choice.

If deterministic is there a "divine" "determiner"
If physicalist is it only a matter of "matter"
IF "free will" what is it that has free will?
If a dualist how are the two connected and can that connection be changed/altered and how?
Is there anything that has no preceding cause? If everything has a preceding cause then does that mean it is all deterministic.... or is it only observed as deterministic as "with hindsight" we can see how way leads onto way.
If only deterministic is everything predictable?

Uncertainty
How to use religion, spirituality, food, awareness, etc to decrease allostatic burden... to embrace uncertainty.
Find the love of uncertainty.
A desire for greater plasticity?

Something in the mind that isn't what we have saw yet or is it something beyond the mind in the connection to the body?

Inducing emotions
Acting

Method Acting
Traditional Story Telling
NOT Fake it till you make it
NOT "ALL IN"
NOT "Pretending"
When you know.... you can emulate, or bring success from one to the other
What is the script of who you are?
But... question of practicing....
Triggering sub-conscious

Relax to be ready....
no need to be understood.
ready, to be ready, to be ready
feeling good - so good - satisfaction...
Turning this to thoughts though....

The thought of the problem ... you are going to the solution.
Start with non-thought, start with solution experience, start with flowing balance.

vibration - thought - thing
No thought.
Satisfaction of non-thought.
Feeling - a non-thought.
Feeling - releasing it
Being.

Movement without resistance, vibration with flow.
If resistance is there - to fix, to let be, to acknowledge, to move, etc...
building the foundation of flow

Why would something (non-human or within us) seek to change the way we connect with/sense fear?

In other news still been thinking about various stories that I have sorta been writing in my thoughts (bedtime stories if you will to get me from over thinking in other ways). That and thinking on social systems.

I sprained my ankle at least a grade 2. Never got an x-ray as, well I already have a boot and why spend the extra money.
However, my foot and ankle started getting worse about 2 weeks ago. Possibly stress fracture or something else from when I was injured just started getting worse.
Going to acupuncture now with two different practitioners.

Well even Myspace needed a month plus break....