DISCLAIMER: This is Philosophy at its Finest, as all Intuitive Insight will be. All of this is theory and insight. Meant to be a gentle nudge to churn up some ideas and get the wheels turning.
KATRIEN’S VERISON
The Shape of Fascia is shared by multiple Information-Sharing structures, (including the Internet).
Fascia’s main Purpose is to act as an Adaptive Structural Framework and Universal Communication Line.
Using Vibrational Crosstalk Fascia changes its Shape and Function.
What if the World had its own Fascial Fabric.
Allowing Us to shape the Space around Us and through Awareness create Opportunities that turn Your Life into Your own personal Adventure.
THE ARTICLE
Though Cars are fantastic and a highly efficient way to get from Point A to Point B it’s an activity I am not particularly keen about.
So when I find Myself on a Drive I have all sorts of ways of turning the perceived wasted time in My Car into Productive time. From Kegels to Fascial Facial Exercises to Breathwork to Eye-Training, I try to keep it exciting.
In this case I was letting Feelings bubble up to the Surface and materialize themselves as thoughts to inspire ideas of How the World actually works. Letting Myself experientially explore the novelty of what these thoughts might have to offer.
A pretty casual Sunday Drive.
Except it was Thursday and I was motoring to get to Point B as fast as the backroads would let Me go.
Hopping over the tracks and downshifting into a tight left, I continued on to My destination.
When with a quiet, yet unmistakable subtlety, it hits Me.
I feel it of course and spend the remainder of what little was left of the drive stumbling through words at a mile a minute until I formulated a couple strings of sentences with enough clarity to share with You.
So without beating around the Bush as I leave You clinging on this Cliffhanger, here it is.
PULLING INTO SPACE
If You’ve been following Me for a while You’ll know that the central concept of Space drives a lot of My Practice. Recently I was listening to a fantastic Ben Greenfield Life Podcast with Ian Mitchell where he shared a great quote:
(Which I’m going to paraphrase instead),
“ Nature doesn’t Push, it Pulls. When Space is created it acts like a Vacuum pulling Nature into that Space.”
One of the best examples is Wind.
Wind doesn’t Blow like it would from Your Grandpappy’s Fire Bellow, but instead the wind is actually moving from a High-Pressure Point to a Low-Pressure Center, the bigger the difference in Pressure the quicker it moves and the windier it is.
The Pressure difference is dictated by the Degree of Difference in Space.
You can also see this with Water, or Plants growing in a Forest. It’s not as much a Competition for Light as it is simply a movement towards the Space that holds it.
Space is how Nature works.
Synergistically, running with the grain.
And if We are Nature, then the Underlying Mechanism of Pulling into Space must have Carryover.
From a Physiological Perspective this is readily apparent. If You look at any type of injury and Your Body doesn’t have what it needs it elicits Compensatory Mechanisms. Compensatory Mechanisms act like “Plan B” Solutions. They work for the short-term, but they’re inefficient substitutions for the Primary Mechanism Plan A. They’re inefficiency tends to gum things up in the long run, stemming from a patchwork job that results in a lot of “Metabolic Bycatch” like Scar Tissue, Misfolded Proteins, Chronic Inflammation, Hormone Dysregulation, Nutrient Imbalance, Metabolic Stress and Excess R.O.S Production.
In turn, this Bycatch creates small problems that fly under the radar and eventually Snowball into Long-term issues, like HPA dysfunction, Compensatory Movement Patterns, Brain Inflammation, Shallow Breathing Patterns, Backed Up Detox Pathways and Poor Cellular Oxygenation and Circulation.
Which of course compounds into the bigger problems we are all aware of in the Western World like Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Heart Attacks, Osteoarthritis, Cartilage Degeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease, etc.
In other words, when Space diminishes so does Vitality and Life Force.
In Contrast when the Body is given what it needs, compensatory mechanisms aren’t necessary because efficient and innate processes are naturally pulled into position. With all the required resources on hand, Inputs can smoothly Flow In allowing duties to be fully completed and Outputs can naturally flow out resulting in a lower accumulation of Metabolic byproducts and the inactivation of “Clean-Up Crew” Cascades.
If Space is closed down in either of the Processes, You get a cease in Flow, both literally (think fluids like, lymph, blood, Interstitial) and figuratively (momentum, inertia, progress etc.).
Shutting down Outflow processes creates a backup and we see the classic “clogged system” resulting in Junk accrual, and with a slump in Inflow we get stagnation from a lack of Resources. In both cases compensation has to jump in until the System reboots. And with Compensation we Loop Down closing more Space.
To sum it up, when You can guarantee Space and the Proper Resources You're ensuring Success by taking care of the system. When those two ingredients mix, everything runs automatically.
That’s what You’re aiming for.
Automaticity.
It’s like building Soil. If You just grab some mud, throw some water on it and hope for the best, eveythings going to pack together, (Space closes down). You’ll get a soupy mess in the Wet Season, and a Dust Bowl in the Dry Season, Your microbes will be non-existent and You’ll be lucky if anything but Liverwort grows on it.
But if You take that same mud, add in twigs, root balls and straw to channel water, wood shaving for bulk, legume leaves for Nitrogen, fresh manure for minerals and a Healthy Duff Layer for Protection, the mixing of ingredients wil stratify to create Space and Microbes & Fungus will come on their own to create vitamins and enzymes that would never have existed before. Over time Your mud will turn into a beautiful, loamy, richly nourished soil teeming with Life that self-perpetuates and forms the bedrock that could lay the Foundation for an entire Ecosystem.
It’s the same with Your Body.
Symbolic of Nature's Perfection both Processes support each other. The Right resources ensure that Space can continue to remain Open and Grow because Compensation isn’t needed and the maintenance of Space ensures there’s enough room for Inflow and Outflow to carry out their roles without impedance.
The Net result..
You guessed it, greater Flow.
So where’s the link to the big picture?
THE BIG PICTURE
Naturally thinking about Space in the Human Body got Me thinking of Fascia. Fascia’s primary role is to act as an Adaptive Structural Framework and Universal Communication Line. The Shape of Fascia is thus very important and has significant influence on how it functions. Because Fascia enmeshes and coats every cell and tissue in the Body its Shape also influences the function of what it ensheathes. Subsequently whatever it connects too will have an influence on Fascia’s shape.
To put it another way, there’s Crosstalk.
So what if Nature has its own type of Fascia.
This is what I felt. I felt a Space, outside of Me Pulling. And if I could feel the difference in Space, then what’s allowing that Space to exist.
It didn't matter what it’s made of but what got Me was the Shape.
In Nature Icosahedrons are the most efficient shape. It’s the shape that allows for the closest packing and it’s seen in Fascia, Mycelium, Neural Networks and even Computer Models of the early Universe and the structure of Dark Matter.
Top to Bottom Dark Matter, Early Universe, Fascia, Astrocytes (Neural Net), Mycelium, Fascia, Top 4 photos courtesy of Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
If I had to put My finger on the Feeling this would be the Shape. Each String pulling on the next, acting like tensioners upon one another to create Space on the inside. Stretching at different angles from their neighbor, they move, unify and split, altering the Shape of the Space they hold.
And while we’re down this Rabbit Hole we might as well keep on going straight to Wonderland and entertain the idea that condensed lines of Energy are what these Strings are actually made of. If Energy makes up the Strings and Strings make up the Web, and You from a Biophysical perspective, (Thank You Bruce Lipton) are vibrationally energetic, then You as a Source of Energy can Influence where Space is created.
Instead of working to get into the Space, Life can be as simple as creating the Space itself and allowing the rest to happen by letting Yourself be Pulled into it.
This means that instead of working against the Grain, we’d be working with it.
Like Nature.
Which got Me thinking, what if it’s even easier than that.
What if all We have to do is be able to “See” the Space and Choose whether or not We want to go in. What if all it takes is Awareness and acting on that Awareness to consistently create Your own Adventure.
What if like Your Fascia there is a literal Fabric that responds to vibration to change shape and alter Fabric Behavior. Except unlike Your Fascia it doesn’t stop at Your Skin. This is where it starts. Just as You Fascia knits all Your Tissues together what if these Energetic Lines mesh You to the rest of the World. Reaching out with delicate fingers to innervate every single thing that’s around You.
That would be pretty Wild. And would certainly provide some level of palpability to the Mysteries of Quantum Biology.
At the very least it’s Food for Feeling.
I don’t know about You but being able to sofly pinch and pull the fibers of the Universe like some wizardly Earth Muffin certainly kindles My Fire.
THE POSSIBILITIES
Having these lines construct an ever-shifting quilt of stretched strings would begin to make those moments where You feel Blanketed by an underlying Feeling a little more perceptible. Like when You feel stuck in Life, or those days where everything just seems to flow, or those weeks where You just feel like there should be something more and You're searching and searching when all of a sudden, “POOF!”, something opens up and You know that’s it.
That that was the answer You were looking for.
It’s easy to see how the rearrangement of the World’s fabric is constantly shifting to Our Behaviour and Reactions to influence these Feelings into Our Reality. Stuck, Space is closed down. The strings that are closest to You are always tightly packed. Flowing and the strings nearest Open up to new pathways. Offering up new areas to explore.
It’s not unlike Bush-wacking.
If You’re always in the brambles, hacking and cutting through vines, it can feel like a lot of effort to get nowhere.
It’s easy to feel frustrated and difficult to really enjoy the experience because it’s always the same and the effort it takes to create something new often seems arduous.
Which is being stuck.
But if You’re Hiking in the Redwoods, even off the Beaten Path, the expanses are wide and inviting. Easy enough to navigate, yet with enough closure to continuously summon curiosity, keeping You Moving into New & Exciting Territory every Moment.
Which is Flow.
At their Extremes is where theses Feelings are most often seen and recognized. But if We can observe the extremes then there must be a middleground. A spectrum that spans from one end to the other, connecting the two.
If We can perceive the action of the Strings along this Spectrum We can become sensitized to the sensation of Space within Our Outer World. And if You can Spot Space that’s grounds for Action unto Opportunity, or at least Choice to take Action, the rest is just a matter of letting the pieces assemble as You allow Yourself to be pulled in.
Like enhancing the Sensory Perception of Your Fascia I believe that if this entire proposition was true, then You could tune Your Energetic Spidey-Senses to begin recognizing the Space that is constantly opening up around You. Couple this Awareness with Time and You could begin to steer it.
This would make Opportunities an hourly, dare I say, on-the-minute occurrence, that could probably be fabricated with a task as simple as playing with the Strings.
How Fun would that Be?
SUMMARY
As Woo as the Law of Attraction or Subconscious Patterning may have once been, Quantum Biology is starting to gently bump these things into the explainable. Sometimes having something to visualize, like the Fabric of the World, sparks the Senses to begin understanding what it could feel like and sets the stage for Play.
If You can’t feel it, it doesn’t matter, pretend. Imagination drives neuroplasticity and begins the building process for Sensory and Motor neural structures, even when they don’t yet exist to the degree that allows for Perceptive Awareness.
When You pretend You can begin to create Tangibility to the Abstract and potentially learn something New in the Process. Opening Ourselves up to possibilities that normally we may close down and providing connections that before We may not have seen.
Just like the Space We may not yet be Aware of.
RESOURCES MENTIONED
Biology of Belief and The Honeymoon Effect by Bruce Lipton
Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
