Journals of Lord Malinov

the poetry of madness

lingo

The heart of my discovery lies in the necessary importance of creating languages appropriate to specific tasks in developing the full potentials of biofeedback. 

One common use of GSR signals has been to assign ascending or descending sequences, i.e., musical scales, to increases and decreases in the GSR readings.  While this language is useful for learning to control the GSR, it contains too much information for the mind to appreciate the most important piece of that information.  By reducing the language to a binary one - has the flight-fight response been invoked? - the mind is able to focus on responding to invocation rather than trying to learn to affect the degree of invocation, a much subtler concept. 

Biofeedback, in this instance, is simply amplification.  We can easily be consciously aware of gross changes in our body resulting from the flight-fight response without any tools.  We can also learn to control the changes without tools.  This has been the path of the yogi. 

Amplification makes it easier to learn this simple and difficult level of control.  Once the language is learned, the mind and body communicate without any difficulty.  Endless amounts of energy that are wasted on self-scaring cycles are saved. 

Almost like showing us how to control the rudder on a ship, after years spent trying to steer by shifing our weight.  I never noticed that wheel there.  Things are so much more peaceful.  I wonder what those levers do?

Life is suddenly a bounty of adventure and delight.  Come sail away.

M

posted by: Malinov at 12:48 | link | comments (2) |

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#1  24 February 2006 - 10:29

 

gar, i like ye sailing analogies capn. glad things are going well.

bluematrix

#2  25 February 2006 - 19:27

 

the metaphor with sails still strikes mas as among the strongest - the flight-fight mechanism is an emergency procedure - keeping the captain informed is essential to proper use and over-use has a deleterious boy-who-cried-wolf consequence - had to mix a little in for spice

Things are so far beyond well that I'm singing with how far I am beyond that place you spoke of which could be called well except that its way better than that . . .

You changed, China. You used to be cool.

China still cool. You pay later.

M

Malinov

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