Body
1. Breathe in, breathe out. Think about the third out of the four states: fractal dynamics. Metastability.
2. To experience, focus on your breath and find a rhythm to it. Once it’s established, try to play around with the short/long inhalation/exhalation as well as the speed and intensity. The breath will appear irregular and yet it will have a self-repetitive quality. You can also look around the space in that way: pausing your gaze on something then shifting to somebody, staying there for a while, shifting, shifting again, pausing, always playing with the full range of distance, range, intensity.
3. Fractal dynamics is a state where the rate of change is itself constantly changing. Multiple smaller changes are followed by the occasional big spikes. This dynamics is self-similar across different scales, hence the fractal. It is also called metastable, because it travels through stable states without staying too long in neither of them.
4. Studies have shown that we exhibit fractal dynamics in a state of rest: the gentle swaying of our body while we stand on the ground. Fractal heart-rate variability is a sign of heath, fractal dynamics may also be present in movement that is constantly changing its flow and yet stays coherent.
5. Fractal dynamics is best-suited for adaptation and resilience as we are sensitive both on the small scale to the most subtle impulses, but we are also ready to receive a strong impact.
Cognition
Break the connections, find the gaps, bridge them with new ideas, zoom in and zoom out, explore.
