23/bodily trust.

Passed the whole day telling everyone I met of my idea of experimenting a hardcore diet in may. Call it paleo or whatever you like, idea is to quit carbs for one month eating mostly proteins and veggies. And yes, while saying it to empower my own motivation, trying to explain the inner reasons for a tough choice like that, I came to think to how we build our lives on ephemeral beliefs. Some may argue there are different degrees of validity in knowledge system: in ‘science’ for example — for it’s evidence based, albeit it’s always not neutral in the process of addressing and reckon that evidence —we put trust insofar as it’s useful to give plausible explanations to natural phenomena. However, we seemingly can believe to other kind of explanations regardless of whether they have or not any evidence.

When it comes to build reference systems related to our life, we somehow naturally tend to overstep trust and enter the faith realm. We have faith in science or in astrology or in whatever gives us a unique reference system to reduce complexity, to build a strong and systematic explanation of the uncanny chaos surrounding us. And when you have faith, you’ve found your reference system. Experience can be a good way to overcome the faith trap: body tells you more than you can rationally understand of who you are and what you like and where you’re going.

Self awareness starts from guts.