Physics: Resonance in my World

In Bali, the Balinese do not split feeling from thought but regard both as part of one process, "keneh," which is translated to "feeling-thought." While it is recognized that the feelings 'they' feel may be different from their thoughts - and there are concepts that differentiate the two - they are linked in the language.

What does this have to do with Resonance? Resonance is defined as "the reinforcement or prolongation of sound by reflection from a surface or by the synchronous vibration of a neighboring object." This "vibration" is also a sense of connection with someone or something else. Common sayings like, "I resonate with that" or "We resonate" relay this alternative meaning of the word.

Resonating is important to me and seen in "my world" within the practitioner-patient relationship I enact with in the practice of Chinese Medicine. It would be impossible to appreciate the patient's situation or problem without feeling. Like hearing someone and having that "hit you in the heart" with 'resonance.' I then might better understand what a person, in particular, my patient is saying. When there is resonance, there is communication and thus an effort at "feeling-thought," a willingness to engage in another's world and try to grasp meaning that may not reside in words, but are evoked in that experience. This is important to me as it evolves into understanding on another level.

I love that "feeling-thought" of "keneh" in Balinese is one - a synced event because you feel with your thoughts and thus feel other's thoughts. Lovely.

Physics: Loafing Around Without Feeling Guilty

"Loafing" is defined as 'idling one's time away, typically by aimlessly wandering or loitering.' Rest - no productivity, no responsibility, no evaluation, no engagement. And, yes, MOST people feel guilty about this because in our society (I think most would agree), it is stigmatized. How can someone succeed, or just live up to "normal means" if they were to sit around and do nothing? Yet, in accordance to "health and medicine (not all)" this state is a necessity, a factory of livelihood and wellbeing. It is noted that the best ideas come when you are not thinking about them. And, the notion that this state of nothingness enhances creativity is actually quite popular, yet paradoxically is still stigmatized in our day to day lives.

I, myself, don't "loaf" intentionally - I would say the only time this occurrence takes place is when my body is overly exhausted yet cannot fall asleep yet. The only thing I am capable of is laying and doing nothing and usually this is a time when my body aches and I don't have the capacity to pick up a book or study (which is what I would usually do before falling asleep). This is also a consequence of lack of sleep (for usually more than one night). At this point, this may be not considered loafing at all because there is no conscious around giving meaningful time to myself, but merely just a consequence of over work and exhaustion.

This is not supposed to be a guilt trip (and hopefully doesn't come across this way), but a reflection on myself to note that I don't do this. And, the only correlation to this experience is what I have mentioned above. Now, if I was to just "loaf" which sounds so EASY (yet completely difficult to put into action), would these periods of exhaustion come to be? Probably not. So, if this paper did anything for me, it helped me realize just that. An essential part of life - missing a beat and not caring... at all. And, maybe, then an episode of utter exhaustion will be less relatable.

Physics: Chaos Theory

"Ordered Chaos" explains itself, bringing order to chaos. A basic example could be our bodies, which in some ways could be considered the orderly entity enacting with the disorder around us, the world.
In order to survive, we are guided by an unwritten law, order within chaos (some say "natural law"). This order is an example of preventing self-harm or for keeping an entire species from going extinct. So, whether it is "us" or the natural world, there is order and there is chaos and the integration in some ways allows order to prevail according to the concept of "ordered chaos" and the need to survive.

Consciousness is another example of chaos, but perhaps not "orderly chaos." Chaos theory is defined as "a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions." "Chaos" states that within the apparent randomness of complex systems there are patterns, repetition, similarity,  and organization - all relying on programming at the initial point known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. The definition exhibits that chaos is quantifiable as it applies to the world. Consciousness on the other hand, does not have to be quantified and perhaps can't be. Freud theorized that our conscious and emotions are all dependent on past experiences/emotions. This isn't always the case. We can have a conscious based on something that is happening in our lives at the very moment that it happens and the reaction can be mutually exclusive from past experiences. In some ways, consciousness is just chaos and patterns for certain take place, but these patterns can be broken by new experiences and thus interpretation can change, consciousness can change without any existence of order.