Waste Management: Plastic Emotions

The body’s resistance to reckless mental activity (the search for excessive meaning) is breaking down day by day. Waste Management: Plastic Emotions emerge as mind struggles to organize itself and bring its thoughts into line.

We live in an age where the disconnect between the action-oriented and the thought-oriented is becoming increasingly apparent. The need for warm action is growing day by day. We need thoughts to cool down so that the heat of action doesn’t burn our mouths. But do thoughts cool down in our minds, which run like heavy engines?

The handicaps of the mind have become even more apparent in the form and tone of human expression in everyday life. Our thoughts have become heavier, increasingly prone to gaining weight with each passing day. The imbalance between mind and body has created visible toxicity in the individual’s life.

The confinement of practical actions within an overly intellectual bubble causes the freshness of experience to disappear. This intellectual bubble causes the excitement of the action at that moment to be quickly forgotten and rendered ineffective through rapid adaptation.

Throughout our lives, the body keeps records, tries to adapt to the flow and rhythm of subsequent warm actions. To do this, it deletes unnecessary information in its own network and transfers patterns that will be useful in the future to the flow of subsequent potential actions.

Sometimes, blockage in our actions leads to the resistance of existing body records and mental patterns to new actions. As we see, our life represents the hidden currents within a large pool behind the ‘transitions’ that exist between all kinds of warm actions.

Orchestra Conducting the Symphony: The Body

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the constant layers of meaning and thought surrounding your experiences? Or that every experience, when repeatedly recounted, takes on a different truth? What could be the reason for this suffocating effect of language and meaning on our experiences? Is it inevitable that a style of movement and action becomes trapped in a constant conceptual dictatorship?

The body is a warehouse. This warehouse filled with the remnants of memories and experiences. Memory as a product of the body, it holds selected stock. We now know that the body and mind have a highly symbiotic interaction.

With the groundbreaking developments in neuroscience, the vagus nerve and its network, which travels throughout the body like a highway, is one of the most important figures in mind-body integration.The book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, which is on The New York Times bestseller list, contains interesting and compelling stories and research on this topic.

Our actions, which cool quickly and rapidly, disappear without creating a lasting and transformative effect.Today, an average of 60-70 thousand thoughts pass through the human mind. This excessive stimulation of the human mind does not only lead to a heavy load of thoughts.

The ‘meanings’ that one wants to grasp cannot find a branch to hold onto or an organizing roadmap in this turmoil. The exhausted mind’s effort to digest meaning creates adverse effect in the individual’s body.

However, this imbalance between thought and action has become one of the greatest modern problems individuals face today! As our lives become more complex, the deceptiveness of impressions also increases. All kinds of impressions and inferences have taken on a criminal nature. Meaning, at this point, metastasizes and undermines truth. Our truths now have a 24-hour shelf life!

Waste Management:Plastic Emotions/ From the Spontaneous Excitement of Experience to Design Emotions

Physical movements that stimulate the brain carry oxygen to the human brain for the maturation of meaning, and this clean oxygen requires efficient blood flow. Thus, it nourishes and expands meaning. The scattered wandering of unprocessed ideas causes meaning fatigue.

The individual who lives in a state of constant transition jumps from place to place, from action to action, and sometimes even from thought to thought, experiencing the freshness offered by the warm action as a fleeting experience. The warm action crystallizes like a mold that has been left out and frozen.

There is a hidden conversation between our unconscious and our surroundings. The body’s automatic impulses, detached from the present moment, reflect the complex reactions of an old memory trace.

Any kind of unprocessed meaning assignment and overinterpretation distances us from the experiential nature of the action. Nowadays, data flows through our capillaries. As the vagus nerve carries this data to the mind, the production of plastic emotions increases. This is exactly what we call data poisoning!Let’s consider the stomach, one of the body’s largest functional organs.

Any disruption or blockage in the digestive process of our stomach has the potential to affect the entire body. Just as the sensitivity of the digestive system affects the entire mind and body, any data, information, or meaning carried by the vagus nerve network causes fatigue and exhaustion that overflows from the bodily network.

At this point, our body, unable to capture the excitement of spontaneous experience and unable to act, suffers the agony of diminished power of action. The modern individual at this point tries to experience even the experience in their own mind. The mind’s attempt to design future unknown experiences with unprocessed ideas brings about plastic emotions and undermines the spontaneous excitement inherent in all actions.