Primal Primer 17 (Mentality)
The relatively low amounts of chronic stimuli in early Homo sapien’s environment of offered several survival benefits by enhancing abilities to focus, channel awareness of external and internal environments, while also increasing rest and recovery.
Improved Focus & Attention – With fewer distractions, early hominids could maintain heightened focus on essential tasks like hunting, foraging, and detecting threats. Detecting slight disturbances in the environment (footprints, disturbed foliage and subtle changes in smell or movement), were critical details for survival.
Enhanced Rest & Recovery – Without the constant stimuli of modern life, early humans embrace better sleep quality and recovery time. Sleep is an essential nutrient: for physical recovery, memory consolidation, and mental regulation.
Deepening Awareness Of The Natural World – Living in environments with fewer stimuli allows Homo sapiens to become highly attuned to the natural rhythms of the earth. Seasonal adaptations are noticed and prepared for by observing the subtle changes of weather, animal migratory patterns, and flora life cycles.
Better Cognitive & Emotional Regulation – With fewer distractions, early humans have increased opportunity to engage in reflective thinking; enhancing problem solving and creativity. These attributes inspire tool making, strategic planning (hunting, gathering, migration, LUP), and emotional regulation in maintaining hormonal balance for better decision making in irrational situations.
Eliminate That Which Does Not Serve You
Our lives are out of regulation, overstimulating, and likely not adding to goals, family, friends, or community. Investigate and commit to time bound fasting in efforts of cleaning receptors and resetting stimulation baselines. Entertainment fasting serves to reinvigorate while providing insights into relationships with stimuli. The self experiment of adjusting the independent variable (entertainment) and the dependent variable of progression, is powerful interdiction for changing life’s course.
~Cave Implementation~
Make a list of everyday entertainment consumed in excess; the usual suspects are clear and present dopamine addictions, presenting as screen time, social media, working, TV, and sports consumption. The ability to stare out to vistas, across vast bodies of water, or into Milky Way spirals arms of our galaxy were once common and everyday practice. In those instances of reverence and contemplation, we not only appreciate beauty, but harmonized with awe; matching frequency and becoming one with source. Amazing potentialities arise when we delaminate from modern influence.
Amazing Potentialities Arise When We Delaminate From Modern Influence.
