Tinkered Thinking

The Fallen Dancer is a series here on Tinkered Thinking exploring a recent shift in perspective. The resulting framework appears to tie together many topics explored on Tinkered Thinking over the years such as resilience, struggle, patience, curiosity, emotional regulation, artistry, entrepreneurship, winning, honesty, and communication. This series will be an attempt to unify them in a cohesive treatment.

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Part III: Veiled Levers

Luck and chance transcend everything: language, religion, culture, location and history. As a concept, Luck has wiggled it’s way into virtually every single person’s brain. As far as the stickiness of ideas go, it supersedes some of our most powerful ideas. Like God. Two people of different religions might argue over god, but when their argument is interrupted by someone tripping and falling and breaking their nose, they’ll both say: that’s bad luck. Even religion cannot adequately explain the fickle nature of good and bad luck. In the absence of a good explanation, the default is: God works in mysterious ways! A statement that has no actual utility. Linguistically and cognitively it is a dead-end. So what is going on: is God’s mysterious method a set of dice?

We are told that everything works out. In the end? Everything works out. Right? But this too is a cop-out of extraordinary proportions. It is at odds with some of the most horrific things that have happened to human beings throughout our history. When we hear of some horrific massacre or the death of a starving child, shall we conveniently forget the belief that everything works out in the end? Certainly it wasn’t the case for such people who had to exit life in such devastating ways. What shall we say then? Do we shrug and say, that’s just bad luck?

Strangely, bad luck appears to be a better explanation than squaring such patently terrifying details of reality with some sort of compassionate god. But The Fallen Dancer is not about god, and the discussion here is only to emphasize the truly ubiquitous role that Luck plays in virtually all peoples’ view of reality.

Putting aside Luck as pure chance, instead let’s regard luck as access to leverage, and this access dilates depending on whether we have good luck or bad luck. Good luck means access to more leverage.

But let’s get even more nitty gritty: what is leverage?

Lev•er•age, noun

1. The exertion of force by means of a lever or an object used in the manner of a lever.

2. The power to influence a person or situation to achieve a particular outcome

Archimedes once said “Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.”

If there’s one quote that forms the back bone of The Fallen Dancer, it’s this one. But the purpose of this entire escapade of words has to do with one ubiquitous confusion:

Where’s the lever?

And even more important:

Are you even looking for a lever?

Since we’re dealing in metaphor, we’ll place aside the first (literal) definition of leverage and focus on the second: the power to influence a person or situation to achieve a particular outcome.

Power evokes images of people in office, kings and queens, and perhaps business magnates and bosses.

What exactly is Power? In this case the literal definition from physics is quite useful. Power is energy expended over a certain amount of time. Another way of saying it is: how much work gets done in a given amount of time. A hard worker only has a limited amount of power because they are only one person. But if their hard work can accrue gains that they can then leverage to multiply their hard-work, say by, hiring an employee, then their power grows because now twice the amount of work can get done in the same amount of time. This is like having a lever that is twice as long, which means it can apply a lot more force.

The business owner now has more power, meaning their ability to literally change reality in order to reflect their vision for their business has increased. The more successful the business becomes, the more people that can be hired, and as a result the business owner is eventually regarded as a powerful individual.

There’s an important caveat here that’s often missed. Hard work alone does not necessarily accrue power. The ability to successfully leverage that hard work is what unlocks additional power. Working very hard every day on balancing an egg is not going to accrue power no matter how hard working that person is, and many people are doing the equivalent of just that: David Graeber called them Bullshit Jobs.

Just because you’re getting paid, doesn’t mean you’re doing anything that’s actually useful. And just because someone isn’t getting paid doesn’t mean they aren’t doing something useful. But this dichotomy will become more important later on in the chapters about Artists and Entrepreneurs. For now

You only live once, so look for the leverage. But how? Where are the levers that magnify one’s own hard work into something more powerful?

The ability to see the veiled levers that are available to us is the reason for setting the context with the Huainanzi parable. Hopefully, by juxtaposing the onlookers’ narrow perspective with that of the wise Father who interpreted things with an expansive perspective, we have a hint of where these levers lie. Paradoxically it’s also the one crucial ingredient to understanding Luck which isn’t present in the parable: resourcefulness.

Paul Graham discovers a beautiful species of resourcefulness in his essay A Word to the Resourceful. In the essay he explores a strange metric he discovered while working with start-ups. He noticed that people who would eventually succeed with their start-up were very easy to talk to. While those who would go on to fail with their start-up were very difficult to talk to. In the essay he realizes why this is the case:

“…the key to the mystery is the old adage ‘a word to the wise is sufficient.’ […] What it means is that if someone is wise, all you have to do is say one word to them, and they’ll understand immediately. You don’t have to explain in detail; they’ll chase down all the implications… Understanding all the implications -even the inconvenient implications- of what someone tells you is a subset of resourcefulness. It’s conversational resourcefulness.”

This is a very niche definition of resourcefulness - a subset as he says. But it is a particularly useful instance of resourcefulness because it is a purely cognitive one, which highlights acutely a difference in perspective. The resourceful entrepreneur is easy to talk to because as you speak to them, they are trying to interpret what you are saying from as many points of view as possible in order to hit upon the correct implication that is the actual meaning of your message.

Compare this to the opposite: when you say something to someone and they don’t understand. By default they’ve missed out on at least one possible interpretation of your words: the actual meaning you are trying to get across! This isn’t to say such a person doesn’t search for additional implications of what you’ve said. It means that over the course of many conversations if this person continually has trouble understanding what’s been said and constantly requires further explanation, then they are on the whole seeing fewer potential meanings than someone who doesn’t need further explanation. It’s a definition of degree that is important between these two perspectives.

It’s a matter of answering the question: why is this person more resourceful than that person?

The more resourceful person is simply searching more imaginative territory where the correct answer might lie. The less resourceful person is blind to that part of the territory because their aperture of focus is too narrow.

Resourcefulness is dependent on a range of focus: too narrow, and it blinds a person from seeing potential resources, implications and levers that exist outside of that narrow field of focus. A wide range of focus simply includes more options, and the resourceful person knows how to open up their aperture of focus to the limit in order to survey as many potential resources as possible. This enables the resourceful person to have a more generous selection of options to pick from.

Now, recalling the Huainanzi parable, who had the narrow range of focus, and who had a larger range of focus?

In the case of the Huainanzi parable, the Father’s larger range of focus essentially renders Luck to be net-neutral. But as mentioned earlier, there’s a crucial ingredient missing in that parable. At no point in the parable do any of the characters seek to deliberately leverage any resourcefulness available to them. The role of all characters in the parable is passive. The Father’s perspective in the Huainanzi parable might be more resourceful because he can imagine more implications for the present conditions, but as no point does he actually do anything to accrue leverage, he is open to the whims of fate, for better or for worse, and despite his ability to have an expanded outlook.

With this frame of reference, consider again the very first question: why are evil people so Lucky?

But with this frame, consider an alternative question: are evil people passive?

THE FALLEN DANCER, PART II (REWRITE)

January 12th, 2023

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Part II: We’ll see (REWRITE)

One of the most famous parables comes from the Huainanzi, an ancient Chinese text that records a series of scholarly debates at the court of Liu An, Prince of Hainan which occurred sometime in the second century BC. In Western society, this parable is often referred to as “The old man lost his horse“, “Maybe so, maybe not”, or simply: We’ll see.

Here is a translation based on Les grand crates du Hainan zi, Clare Larre et al.

Good luck and bad luck create each other

and it is difficult to foresee their change.

A righteous man lived near the border.

For no reason, his horse ran off into barbarian territory.

Everyone felt sorry for him.

But his farther spoke to him:

“Who knows if that won’t bring you good luck?”

Several months later

his horse came back with a group of good, noble barbarian horses.

Everyone congratulated him.

But his father spoke to him:

“Who knows if that won’t bring you bad luck?”

The rich house had good horses

and the son mounted with joy to ride.

He fell and broke his leg.

Everyone felt sorry for him.

But his father spoke to him:

“Who knows if that won’t bring you good luck?”

One year later

the barbarians invaded across the border.

Adult men strung up their bows and went into battle.

Nine out of ten border residents were killed,

Except for the son, because of his broken leg,

Father and son were protected.

Hence: Bad luck brings good luck

And good luck brings bad luck.

This happens without end

and nobody can estimate it.

Before reading on, take a moment to let this parable sink in and see how it effects you. Do you agree with the message it’s laying out? What exactly is the message?

Further, it’s important to point out that this is a translation, and it’s ultimately a fool’s errand to approach interpretation pedantically, especially a translation of a text that comes from a culture that existed over a thousand years ago. Instead, the goal is to use this parable as a springboard to explore perspectives on luck.

In the common western version of this parable the volley between observers and the father is “You’re so lucky!” or “Oh how unlucky!” And to each, the father simply says: we’ll see.

When it comes to Luck, what is the highest utility that we can glean from this parable? While parables generally have a fairly obvious lesson that’s intended to be laid bare for any reader to notice and understand, the deepest lesson we can extract from this parable is more subtle than what at first seems obvious.

It seems that the lesson of the parable is summarized at the end. That good and bad luck are linked, and one brings the other. It seems like life and luck is a never ending series of getting one-step-forward followed by a push backwards, and in the grand scheme of things luck levels out to a neutral zero-sum game. But notice again those first two lines, specifically the second: it is difficult to foresee their change. That’s the whole point of this parable, and it’s chief value: second and third order effects are very difficult to see. In this sense the Father’s response in the western transmutation might fit the parable better. Instead of labelling each occurrence as either a potential herald of good or bad luck, the Father says simply: We’ll see.

Who’s to say that good luck doesn’t bring more good luck? But, that’s not the point of this parable.

While this is a cute story about unintended consequences and second and third order effects, does it really unearth the nature of good and bad luck in a way that we can understand?

What’s strange to realize about this story is that it doesn’t actually contain any bad luck. All of the bad luck turns out to be advantageous in some way, making it good luck temporarily veiled by perspective as bad luck. All the good luck is… well, lucky.

So again where is the bad luck?

Beyond this, some very large questions still loom. If we are to permit the influence of this parable on our perspective to be characterized by the way it ends: that luck is zero-sum and evens out in the end, then this parable does nothing to explain the phenomenal and consistent good luck that some people seem to have. And what about people who seem like they can never get a break? Where do things even out for those people? This parable does nothing for us in respect to understanding how good or bad luck tends to pile up for some people.

These larger questions aside, the parable does do two things for us that are of extreme value considering what’s to come. How you react to this parable says a lot about how you see the world, your effect on it, and the role of luck as you see it. Some people read this parable, hear the zero-sum nature of luck and nod their heads. It’s akin to throwing up your hands and saying: I’m just along for the ride! asdf

The other function this parable performs regards perspective, and the effect is pronounced in the western transmutation as characterized by the Father’s response of, “We’ll see”. Compare the perspective of the father who says “We’ll see” to that of the onlookers who judge the situation as either lucky or unlucky. Whose perspective is wider and whose perspective is zoomed in - narrow? The perspective of the onlookers is localized. They are considering the event as separate from the future. Whereas the father is taking tomorrow into consideration when trying to assess what is happening now. Presumably, the father is remembering many times in the past when bad things turned out to be beneficial and good things lead to unwanted outcomes. He’s then mapping that information onto the present and the future, while the onlookers seem oblivious to anything but the isolated event.

The real utility of this parable is that a change in perspective can neutralize the quality of luck.

This is just a starting point. The argument here is not that we should adopt a perspective that neutralizes luck, its only to point out for now that perspective plays an enormous role in the elusive entity that we call Luck.

Our large questions still loom, and the main event is still to come. But, just as a shrewd general seeks the advantage of picking the location of the next scrimmage, a context is being constructed here - one that hopefully illuminates the different perspectives that people have when it comes to luck. While this might do little to reign in that elusive creature into a usable frame work, what it does do is set the stage to show how people’s perspective on luck radically impacts what kinds of actions they take when navigating life.

Stay tuned for the next installment of The Fallen Dancer I will be posting new installments and drafts 5 days a week Tuesday - Saturday until the project is complete.

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THE FALLEN DANCER, PART II

January 11th, 2023

Click here to read Part I

Part II: We’ll see

One of the most famous parables comes from the Huainanzi, and ancient Chinese text that records a series of scholarly debates at the court of Liu An, Prince of Hainan sometimes in the second century BC. In Western society, this parable is often referred to as “The old man lost his horse“, “Maybe so, maybe not”, or simply: We’ll see.

Here is a translation from Les grand crates du Hainan zi, Clare Larre et al.

Good luck and bad luck create each other

and it is difficult to foresee their change.

A righteous man lived near the border.

For no reason, his horse ran off into barbarian territory.

Everyone felt sorry for him.

But his farther spoke to him:

“Who knows if that won’t bring you good luck?”

Several months later

his horse came back with a group of good, noble barbarian horses.

Everyone congratulated him.

But his father spoke to him:

“Who knows if that won’t bring you bad luck?”

A rich house has good horses

And the son mounted with joy to ride.

He fell and broke his leg.

Everyone felt sorry for him.

But his father spoke to him:

“Who knows if that won’t bring you good luck?”

One year later

the barbarians invaded across the border.

Adult men strung up their vows and went into battle.

Nine out of ten border residents were killed,

Except for the son because of his broken leg.

Father and son were protected.

Hence: Bad luck brings good luck

And good luck brings bad luck.

This happens without end

and nobody can estimate it.

In the common western version the volley between observers and the father is “You’re so lucky!” or “Oh how unlucky!” And to each, the father simply says: we’ll see.

What is the highest utility that we can glean from this parable? While parables generally have a fairly obvious lesson that’s intended to be laid bare for any reader to notice and understand, the lesson offered by this parable is more subtle than what at first seems obvious.

It seems that the lesson of the parable is summarized in the end. That good and bad luck are linked, and one brings the other. And it seems like life is a never ending series of one step forward followed by one step backwards - and that in the grand scheme of things luck levels out to a neutral futility. But notice again those first two lines, specifically the second: it is difficult to foresee their change. That’s the whole point of this parable, and it’s chief value.

But, while this is a cute story about unintended consequences and second and third order effects, does it really unearth the nature of good and bad luck in a way that we can understand?

What’s strange to realize about this story is that it doesn’t actually contain any bad luck. All of the bad luck turns out to be advantageous in some way, and all the good luck is… well, lucky.

So again where is the bad luck?

THE FALLEN DANCER, PART I

January 10th, 2023

The Fallen Dancer will be a series here on Tinkered Thinking exploring a recent shift in perspective. The resulting framework appears to tie together many topics explored on Tinkered Thinking over the years such as resilience, struggle, patience, curiosity, emotional regulation, artistry, entrepreneurship, winning, honesty, and communication. This series will be an attempt to unify them in a cohesive treatment.

Part I: Why are Evil people so lucky?

Luck is a strange entity in life. Sometimes it seems as though the world is karmic, as though luck follows the logic of karma, and that people who deserve it get their comeuppance. But then often, or perhaps more often, it seems that people who don’t deserve it - get incredibly lucky. What is going on here? Is this merely proof of a cold, unjust and uncaring universe? A cruel god? Evidence of past lives that either uplift or damn our circumstance in this life? Or is there something else going on here?

These questions contain a fundamental flaw. One so enormous that it’s impossible for the perspective that gives rise to such questions to even glimpse it. The flaw is with the perspective that generates these questions. A more interesting question might be: does your perspective on life have an impact on how lucky you are?

At first this sounds like some supernatural, hocus pocus nonsense. It would be understandable to assume that a sharp turn is about to occur, diving into all manner of balderdash like “manifesting”, “mystical energy” and “positive talk”, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Instead, let’s examine the pieces of the puzzle: what exactly is luck? It’s unexpected leverage. Luck is a sudden increase in personal agency due to some external aspect of new circumstances. For example we don’t instantly increase in agency in terms of what we can actually do. We don’t wake up with entirely new skillsets downloaded into our brain, and we don’t wake up with extra arms to type twice as fast. Luck is a change in circumstances that allows for our current level of agency to become magnified. Our actual agency doesn’t change, but reality has some new aspect that makes it potentially much more susceptible to the influence and effort of the agency we do have.

A few examples can help illustrate this and it’s useful to mix in the largest magnifier of agency: money. Consider this lucky turn of events: Getting a call and finding out an unknown uncle has left you a ton of money. That’s lucky. Money increases our agency without any change in who we are. Our agency is magnified because money is fungible and we use it exclusively in the context of other people. We pay people to do things and we pay for the fruit of other people’s labor either in services or products. So our agency is magnified by money by enabling us to utilize other people for our own design.

Compare this with a dedicated start-up founder who is given a sum of money by an investor to bring a business to life. That investor-money is functionally the exact same as money from that long lost uncle, or winning the lottery even. So what is different in these circumstances?

Many lottery winners end up penniless just a few short years after their windfall fortune. And many start-ups similarly fail, essentially meaning all that money is squandered in both cases. A lack of agency and ability is magnified in each case.

But consider the flipped version of the start-up founder who successfully employs that windfall of investor money in order to bring a novel idea to life. The money simply magnifies the vision, hard work and overall agency of that start-up founder.

Returning to that initial definition of luck as unexpected leverage, it’s worth examining whether the leverage really is unexpected or not. The case of the long lost uncle and windfall inheritance seems like it fits the bill. But what about the start-up founder who gets investor money? Is that unexpected? Perhaps luck isn't always unexpected..

Let’s examine the same set of examples in terms of a slightly different definition of luck: luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Opportunity fits nicely into what’s already been laid out. Opportunity is that slight change in reality which presents the possible magnification of one’s agency. But what about preparation?

What exactly is the preparation for the lottery winner who ends up penniless, or the start-up founder who fails, or the start-up founder who succeeds?

The lottery winner who ends up penniless in a few years is a much different person then the driven hardworking start-up founder who succeeds. The money doesn’t actually impart any actual agency to the person who receives it. Money only magnifies whatever agency the person already has. In the case of the lottery winner, the only real agency might be an ability to spend that money, which is no agency at all, that’s just feeding desire and pleasure through consumption. So perhaps in such a case the money magnifies a lack of agency. Whereas the start-up founder’s agency is presumably an ability to work hard to turn a novel idea into a reality. And the hard working start-up founder who fails? Shall we chalk that up to bad luck? Perhaps.

But what is bad luck? Is it simply the opposite? Is bad luck an unexpected decrease in agency? What about that popular definition of luck as the intersection of preparation and opportunity? What is the opposite of preparation meeting opportunity? Preparation not meeting opportunity? That’s not bad luck, that’s just the absence of luck - status quo, so to speak. So what is bad luck?

The Fallen Dancer is the result of a curiosity that has long circled the concept of bad luck. For many years that curiosity was stuck in a holding pattern, yielding nothing, discovering nothing, the mechanics of bad luck remaining elusive. Likewise, a twin curiosity circled the question that forms the title of this introduction: why are evil people so lucky? These two fruitless curiosities were haunting, and then one day, a single line from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations clicked in a way that had escaped during previous readings. A fundamental error in perspective revealed itself. The Fallen Dancer is the result of discovering that error - a chronicle of a subtle but profound shift in perspective that reveals the connection between these two intractable questions.

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MEDITATION DRAFT SESSION 8: INTEROCEPTION

January 9th, 2023

On Monday Tinkered Thinking releases a draft of a lesson from the forthcoming meditation app, currently called The Tinkered Mind (If you can think of a better name, please reach out. I'm not crazy about the current one, but I'll be damned if I let an imperfect name keep me from developing a good idea.) The rationale here is simply to stave off project stagnation by taking a wish to work with words on a daily basis (Tinkered Thinking Posts) and combine it with adjacent projects. This also gives regular readers a chance to get a preview of what I'm cooking up and to get feedback before the app launches, which is a tactic that has proved extremely useful with other projects unrelated to Tinkered Thinking.

One further introductory note: The goal of this meditation app is predominantly aimed at helping individuals build a robust daily habit by breaking that habit down and tackling it's consitituent parts one at a time and aiding the process with a new and innovative way of tracking progress, the likes of which has not been seen in other meditation apps or habit tracking apps.

Again, if you have any feedback, please reach out via Twitter

Session 8: Interoception

Take a moment to sit and arrange your posture. Maintain a straight back with plenty of space for the abdomen to expand.

Once you’re ready begin breathing with deep exhales. We want a relatively quick inhale and a slow, longer exhale. I’ll count out a few 4 count inhales followed by exhales with a count of 8

Inhale till 4, starting on

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

hold for a moment and then exhale

8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 -1

Then..

Inhale again till 4, starting on

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

hold for a moment and then exhale

8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 -1

Continue this for a couple more breaths, and feel free to allow the exhales to be as long as you want. And once you are ready let your breathing transition to coherence breathing where inhales and exhales are the same length.

Some people have a talent for interoception - the ability to feel what’s going on inside of the body. There are the classic 5 sense of sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell - those are all exteroceptive, meaning they sense things that arise from outside the body but we actually have more sense - we have interoceptive senses. Some people, for example, can feel their heart beat without touching their own wrist or neck. It’s just a light pulse that radiates throughout the whole body.

However, most people it seems have very little interoceptive ability, and it’s useful to gain a bit of that ability. With a little more interoceptive power we can zero in on issues that are easy to fix. Muscular tension is probably the biggest and most obvious example of interoceptive sensing. For many we hold tension in our bodies chronically, to our detriment, both physically and mentally. Simply being aware of the body, all its party and how they feel can be a great stress release and we’ll focus on that during this session.

But before we start its worth noting another section in the app: one labelled NSDR. This stands for Non-Sleep-Deep-Rest, which is also referred to as Yoga Nidra. These old practices are excellent for reducing stress, and recently it’s been shown in scientific studies that NSDR practices can even restore brain chemistry to an impressive degree if sleep deprivation is the issue. If the research continues to hold up it appears a 10 or 20 minute session of NSDR can be more effective than napping for an hour. These practices are also useful for getting to sleep if falling asleep is a challenge, so do make sure to check out that section of the app.

Here we’ll do a simpler version of what essentially adds up to an NSDR protocol, it’s just a simple body scan, and there’s a visualization that can help with this exercise.

Imagine hovering above you is a thing sheet of light, similar to the thin wall of light that shoots into a dark room from a cracked doorway. But this wall of light is parallel to the ground, like a ceiling made of light.

Now imagine this sheet of light slowly descending toward you, and as it touches the top of your head your body begins to poke a whole in this sheet of light, and the light in turn traces a line around your head, and as the sheet of light continues to fall, this ring of light fluctuates with the contours of your head, your face, your ears, and onwards it falls.

As you imagine this, focus on the that part of your body where the light is touching you. Try to slowly bathe your body in attention from the top down. Try to feel in great detail everywhere the light is touching you and everything inside of this wavering ring as it slowly moves down your body.

As the scan descends feel your eyes, your nose, your lips and your neck, down to your shoulders, your collarbones and your back. And onwards around each of your arms and down your torso.

Feel as it courses over your elbows and down your forearms, and around your abdomen.

Allow your attention to wash down your hips, and down your thighs to your knees where your hands might rest. Down your wrists and across your hands down all of your fingers to their tips.

Let your attention continue to fall over your knees, down your shins and to your ankles and then over your feet, down to your toes.

How well did you do? As your attention coursed downward, were you able to notice anywhere in your body where you are holding unneeded tension? Perhaps you noticed your stomach is a little upset, or something is sore from yesterday’s work out.

Perhaps you were able to pin-point little areas of pain due to your posture - either because you’re slouching a little or because your body is still getting used to sitting while meditating. Do you find that simply paying attention to that tightness helps release and relax that area of your body? Just like a thought that once noticed, fades into nothing…

This body scan will be valuable as it’ll help you realize the parts of your body are strengthening and the posture that may have felt uncomfortable at first is beginning to feel very comfortable.

Let’s try this body scan one more time, with fewer words and a bit more silence.

Imagine that sheet of light above you slowly descending.

It touches the top of your head.

Courses over your face

Spreads out to your shoulders

Over your chest

Down your abdomen and your arms to your elbows.

Over your thighs

Across the backs of your hands

Over your knees

Down your shins,

Your ankles..

You feet

And your toes.

We’ll start incorporating this body scan into future sessions. Paired with our breathing exercises it will add to the ability to relax the body and enjoy the session.

Now, let’s transition from coherence breathing back to deep exhales, and try to notice any thoughts that pop up as we go through out counts.

Inhale till 4, starting on

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

hold for a moment and then exhale

8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 -1

Then..

Inhale again till 4, starting on

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

hold for a moment and then exhale

8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 -1

Continue like this for a few more moments while the session ends.

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