Centerlife - Happiness Through Nature's Design May 2019 | Page 24

Mental Routines
Our minds are designed in physically and functionally formed
centeroriented patterns. Beginning with neurons and our body’s
overall central nervous system (CNS) which are both organized about
a central core (a neuron’s nucleus and the mind at the heart of the CNS
respectively). Naturally, these centrally oriented arrangements extend
their influence to the larger assemblages of how we think and act.
For instance, memories organize about single, picture perfect images. Planning and
problem solving both create an the ever-collapsing, fishbone chart structure which
converges upon a single and central conclusion. The millions of neurons firing in
your mind at this very moment are organized by the single and gentle conscious
thought floating in the middle of your mind.
Even the loosely-defined routines that fill our days are center-oriented in nature.
Things such as storytelling, the urge to bet, tunnel vision, obsessions, the thrill
of watching sporting events, as well as our goal- and task-oriented disposition all
organize about a culminating and central outcome, act, or moment. The pattern
also applies to urges, cravings, fits of impatience, panic attacks, emotional spirals,
suspense, excitement, and even obsessions.
Our Lives
Our overall life also forms in complimentary arrays of center-oriented patterns
centered on those things essential to our physical, emotional, intellectual, and
social well-being.
Such centers include primal needs such as food, shelter, and wellbeing as well as
emotional needs such as companionship, family, bonding, and love. Over-and-above
our basic needs we find centers of want and desire which while often unessential
to our survival –things such as hobbies, trinkets, and new IT gadgets; nevertheless
drive large portions of our life in our age of convenience and consumerism. We
are also subject to powerful flocking centers of mind that drive so many of life’s
arrangements including procreation, family, fitting in, and even behaviors
associated with survival of our species.
Our pursuit of our needs, wants, and desires ultimately manifesting as homes,
careers, relationships, shopping, hobbies, entertainment, vacations, etc.
Large portions of our overall life cycle are also organized in this pattern witness
children having an ingrained “center of the universe” complex where they place
themselves at the center of all existence. Later in life we become centers of a
family. We also find ourselves increasingly attracted to a central calling in life and
uncovering our destiny. Many want to be the boss whether it be at the office or at
home. This archetype also drives us toward positioning ourselves as being the best
or winner (i.e. the center) in nearly everything we undertake whether it be sports,
arguments, social status, careers, or relationships.