9 September

Why I think 'abstract' ideas really matter. Galileo and Newton saw the world as made up of independent things 'in' space and time. Like in the picture, a person 'moves from A to B', with A and B separate points in space and time. If you try to move with that framework, which most of us do, movement becomes effortful, because you have to do something to get from A, to B. The problem with this framework is, that A and B are never separate places. B is already part of A before you even 'leave' A. If you're standing on one side of a room and you want to walk to the other side, that other side of the room is still the room, it's not a separate place. You're 'in' both sides of the room the whole time, you don't have to check out at A and say 'sorry, have to do some work now to get to B'. If you change your framework like that, and stop trying to get from A to B, but instead just have where you are and where you want to go as part of the same experience in each moment, together, all effort will disappear. And all sorts of damage to your body will disappear too. Try it getting 'up' out of a chair too, don't check out of the chair to try to go anywhere, just expand your experience to include being on the chair *and* where you want to go to, at the same time.