Understanding Exercise

 People naturally have an aversion to anything they don't fully understand -- especially when it is coupled with the advice that they must do it despite not seeing any good reason for doing it.  The problem is a lack of understanding of what they are doing, and until that is fully grasped, there will understandably be great resistance -- to do what doesn't make perfectly good sense and is aligned with everything else they know to be true in their lives.

Frequently, that is because those who offer that advice don't understand themselves what they are talking about -- but that is what everybody else also says, and nobody asks if it can be proven right or wrong in the present moment and situation.  That's what makes anything "scientific" -- that those results can be repeated by anyone, and not just a small group of "experts" jealousy protecting their "secrets," that only they are privy to.

That is the same in every human activity -- the desire to be the smartest person in the room -- without having to demonstrate it.  In that manner, they hope to intimidate all the others who know even less than they do -- because real confidence is very hard to come by.

That confidence arises to the extent that what one believes and thinks, closely relates to how it predicts real world events and outcomes.  People told to do something that doesn't make convincingly good sense to them -- are understandably reluctant to charge into the battlefield -- while those who unquestioningly, are merely replaced by the next recruitment of newbies.

So survival would dictate that one would filter all new information and actions through the filter of the tried and tested -- or what has developed through life and eperience as the "scientific method," as well as self-evident truth -- which is to say that if it sounds too good to be true, it should be put through a more rigorous examination and stands the test the first time and every time -- and not just sometime in the future will miraculously transform into the truth.

Reality doessn't work that way -- and what we are trying to do in life is have our thoughts and ideas align with realities, rather than thinking one can impose whatever fanciful ideas one wants upon the existing realities -- and eerything will turn out hunky-dory, rather than the disasters we are witnessing so famously in declining civilizations, cultures and societies.

There is a reason they go extinct -- rather than having "survival value," which is the name of the game of life.  It is not about beating everybody else -- but simply perfecting one's own game throughout life.  However, it is not merely doing one's own thing -- as the immature think -- but actually doing everybody's thing -- and then some, to arrive at a greater synthesis and summation of all of life.

That means learning from everything -- and not just learning and doing the one thing -- as though it is everything.  Those are the specializations that have their moment and quickly flame out and move off the stage after their 15 minutes of fame -- to spend the rest of their existence in oblivion -- of which the most typical are the drug, sex, and other diversionary addictions that numb one from their sensitivities and awareness of what is important to do.

That which is important to do, must receive the highest priority among all the possibilities -- at every moment -- and not the "entertainment," which is invariably the fragmentation of life into the many parts that are less than the whole comprehension of it.  In that way, everything is made less meaningful and significant -- until inevitably, nothing makes any sense at all, and becomes merely arbitrary and the fad of the moment.

These fads are dictated by whomever is most motivated and funded to convince everyone else that their way of thinking is the only way that can be thought -- and one should consider no other explanations.  These campaigns usually appeal to greed or fear -- or the combination of the two which is the fear of missing out (FOMO) -- as though that truth might not last if one does not act quickly enough.

But the truth is that which endures -- and stands the test of time -- rather than what is easily forgotten as soon as the vested interests run out of money to promote them, and are displaced by the next fanciful ambition.

And that is why it is so important to begin each day grounding oneself in reality -- especially to see what one is momentarily capable of -- not only at one's peak, but importantly, at one's weakest -- because that is one's vulnerability -- that must be worked on and strengthened for the greatest integrity of that individual.  That is all one can do -- but that is what one must do -- to achieve the best of what their life is capable of being.