Physical Intelligence - Day 15

This time last year I was talking about "calibration" which is studying what is the best time for exercise and calibrating my life to align with that "best time".  A year later and there is no calibration and there is no calibration because I have not answered the most common human habit that exists in the world today - and that human habit is procrastination.

Today I am not only procrastinating on exercise, but I am procrastinating on submission of assignments that are due on my course which have a deadline of tomorrow evening.  I already know that procrastination has a pay-off because otherwise it would not play an part in our life.  That it plays a major part in many lives is because we know it has a pay-off and we know that the idea of a last minute rush is something we have managed to get away with in the past. 

This "getting away" with procrastination should be considered a deep immaturity and foolishness because we all trust in the pay-off so much.  When I line up procrastination with physical intelligence, what I see is two different things.  Procrastination in relationship to physical intelligence is physical stupidity.  We are willing to do the stupid thing because we think we can cut these corners on life and we assume that life is based on a factor called time.  By leaving these things to the last possible moment, we delude ourselves that we saving time, when the reality is we are wasting our life.

We know we are wasting our life because clearly if we were in flow with what we study or how we live, procrastination would be the last thing we consider - unless we are engaged with things that are the antithesis of flow.   Yet is procrastination really an antithesis, but only a self-created pressure that leads to a flow experience because the deadline or the penalty turns it into a last minute rush - to the point where we will work deep into the night to accomplish that very thing we were procrastinating on.  Not only is this a poor way of making life choices, but we are manufacturing the flow experience, rather than living the flow experience. 

So physical intelligence if I am to treat it as a serious subject requires me first to determine what is important and what is urgent and what becomes important because we made it urgent.  The creation of these emergencies is our own doing and how can that be anything other than a case of physical stupidity. 

Since I don't attach procrastination in the realm of stupidity, I invest in its pay-off, because it is a deeply recurring habit.  This means I am blind to key elements of physical intellignce, because if I was self-aware about these elements, they would begin to transform into a practical wisdom.  They have not, procrastination endures - and yet that which now creates a well-head of pressure and creates unnecessary tension in the body is something that I have manufactured into being - and worse of all, it provides the subject matter for laughter and humour.

Procrastination is then right up there with drinking heavily and then letting one's hair down to laugh at our own actions and laugh with other people who engage physical stupidity.  This behaviour does not matter for those people who view this behaviour as a way of life, but I am now pursuing physical intelligence as a way of life.  So it is that I need to call myself out on this shit while others have not made physical intelligence as a way of life for themselves.

Not only do we laugh together but we will create personal sermons of excellence that are us telling others what is good for them.  There is a pay-off in that also but it isn't physically intelligent.  That is the chief walk-away lesson from Day 15.  The self-reflective question is whether I will have forgotten this lesson by the time I awake tomorrow morning - because clearly we all get amnesia when it comes to the flow and pay-off we get from procrastination.

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