Primal Primer 21 (Mentality)
Long before formalized religions or spiritual systems developed, meditation was a pratice that may be progenitor to modern relidions. While early Homo sapiens may not have engaged in meditation as we define it today, forms of mental focus, introspection, and awareness was incorporated in seeking singularity. Prior to group worship, reading alleged original words of God, the act of singular focus, mind clearing, and adding challenging poses of endurance and lengthening, all in efforts of purging intrusive throughts. Through this delamination of thinking and ego, meditation may have been the initial conditions of prayer and unity; seeking a oneness with the one.
Origins Of Meditation
Prehistoric Roots – Meditation was a natural extension of early human’s need for mental focus and awareness. Sapiens trained high levels of alertness, stress management, and improved decision through sitting in stillness; focusing solely on breath and sensory experience.
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Physiological & Cognitive Benefits Of Meditation
Stress Reduction – One primary effect of mediation is stress reduction. Reducing stress helps regulate fight and flight response, conserving energy, and preventing burnout from chronic states of high alertness.
Improved Focus & Awareness – Meditation sharpens attention and focus, essential for hunting, gathering, and detecting dangers. By practicing mindful awareness, early Homo sapiens could better attune to surroundings, improving abilities in prey detection, predator avoidance, or navigating complex social interactions.
Emotional Regulation – Meditation fosters mental clarity and leads to insightful solutions to complex issues. Clear thinking without turbid colors of emotion are essential in developing tools, planning hunting strategies, or navigating social hierarchies within tribes.
Empathy & Compassion – Meditation is shown to increase empathy and compassion cultivation; important attributes when sharing resources or caring for others in times of need. This ability to form strong social connections is bedrock to our species success.
Existential Anxiety – Meditation helps deal with existential fears such as death, illness, and the unknown. By engaging in reflective practices, meaning creation, purpose, and resilience can be discovered; sharpening psychological tools essential for navigating hardship.
Consciousness Exploration – Some forms of meditation allow Homo sapiens the ability to explore different states of consciousness. Internal journeying engenders creativity and imagination for development of new tools and technology.
Meditation Is Intentional Consideration
Meditation is an ancient practice done innumerably in variation, while providing similar and wide ranges of effects. Defined as paradoxically deep in consideration while not in thought, meditation is a process of structured concentration with purposeful presence. When the brain is quiet, focused on nothing but breath or step, the sapien palpably shifts into a different gear of being.
~Cave Implementation~
Seek out time to breathe and quiet the mind. Similar to fasting, meditation is a fast of the ego and processing it seeks. Clarity of mind, calmness of soul, and overall down regulation of the autonomic nervous system, are powerful levers to pull for increasing quality of life, relationships, and general prowess. Meditation takes on many forms, modalities, and time investments. Like any skill, practice leads to progress; results being accumulative. Yoga, Kundilini, Wim Hoff, and any breath work where silencing the brain is intention, are powerful doorways into ancient technologies of meditative practice.
When The Brain Is Quiet, Focused On Nothing But Breath Or Step, The Sapien Palpably Shifts Into A Different Gear Of Being.
