To return to domain-specific knowledge needed for life mastery. Definitive sources would be very helpful. While I’m confident of my nutrition knowledge, it is continually refined and with supplements, I’m not sure (other than omega 3 from fish or krill is needed, and vitamin d if not enough sun).
The real key to life mastery is what the post doesn’t address: what do you want out of life?
Now, that doesn’t mean I believe every answer to that question will lead to anything like what I would call “mastery” (a poor word choice in some ways). But the real key is passion.
Passion can make the joints and breath feel better without conscious practice and can overcome the effects of what it doesn’t make feel better. But not all passions are equal and not all are sustainable. I think there’s more than one answer to the question of what passions will lead to a full life, but it’s partly subjective in terms of mastery: do you feel mastery in your life if you do X? People can both answer that question the same but get different results in terms of what an onlooker would call “mastery.”
So what is “solved” about life mastery is the question: What is a reproducible way to execute a well defined, conscious practice to influence one’s life in the direction of having the most resources available to contribute to life and meet its various challenges? Passion/hope/relationships/luck/etc. can replace this conscious practice, sometimes temporarily, sometimes permanently, but they can not do so in a way that is reproducible in another person.
The core of the daily personal practice to achieve life mastery is creating mobility: exhaling through stress and effort, moving the joints and muscles to transform the fascia and posture, learning to reintegrate breath, movement and structure in the face of strain to them and developing resiliency to strain. This is found in the work of Scott Sonnon’s system of Circular Strength Training.
One can master “CST” and not master life (but if one has mastered CST and is passionately and diligently trying to master life and failing, I can’t imagine another path to mastery that would’ve worked for that person). One can master life and not “CST” or something like it (but that person would either benefit from CST or has unconsciously reproduced it in subtle ways–normally I would bet on a mix).
How to master/practice life?
Passionately.
What well-definable, reproducible daily personal practice best trains the bodymind to nurture, house, express, grow that passion?
Circular Strength Training.
Tags: Bodymind, Life philosophy
