Understand yourself: Where am I (2)
Edition 4: The YMCK+ model connects different fields of science - philosophy, psychology and physics - to an integrated view of humanity, offering a different perspective on personal and social issues
Traumas are hereditary, just like physical illnesses. But traumas are about an experience, an event with meaning. We usually view physical illness completely separately, it is something that happens to you without you knowing why. Or can we also link that to an experience, from your own life or transgenerational?
Doctor Gabor Maté sees a connection between childhood development and trauma [1] and the potential lifelong consequences they bring on physical and mental health, including autoimmune diseases, cancer, ADHD addictions and a wide range to other conditions. In his books and lectures, Maté emphasizes the importance of biopsychosocial aspects in the development of diseases.
The YMCK+ model is a dynamic system model that makes no a priori distinction between brain, body and the other. It expresses experiences as energy in spacetime. This means that you can follow biopsychosocial aspects as units through time and space. The latter is important so as not to make assumptions in advance about where a trauma will manifest itself. And, not unimportantly, this is how you connect with physics. This means that existing laws and methodologies from the sciences can be introduced into healthcare.
In this newsletter I want to continue with where you are in time. In the previous edition I described how you know which memory you are in when you look at your own life story. We assume a linear time scale, but now let's consider it cyclically.
Experiences come back
In Figure 1 you see a row of experiences at the top (six of them, shown in the perpetual anime), which represents part of our life story. But time is actually not linear. On the left you see how Thomas Hertog and Stephan Hawking depict the universe. This is organized around the origin, the further back you go the smaller spacetime becomes. The shell around it contains qubits: small pieces of information. On the right you see the experiences arranged cyclically, like the membrane of one large perpetual anime. This represents human being, who processes all his experiences linearly within himself and carries his life story around him like a shell.
This has major consequences for how we see ourselves. The world comes to us linearly, but in reality it is cyclical. We perceive space or time, but process it in spacetime. We are both clock and compass.
Biopsychosocial effect
Experiences return at regular intervals: just as the sun rises every day, and autumn arrives at the same time every year. Now let's extend this image and put ourselves at the center of everything. If we are the hands of the clock, then all experiences come back at a set time. This is how I experienced reality. We know that traumas have transgenerational effects. We follow the path of our ancestors, often even unintentionally making the same choices. It is not always the same one to one, it is the meaning of the experience that is passed on, and which often has the same effect on behavior.
Because we are not a passive pointer, going through the same circle of the clock every time. We are also a compass needle, and are guided by experiences with a strong attraction or a repulsive effect. Traumas are experiences with a great impact, so they have a lot of influence. The compass needle pulls towards it, or turns away from it. The perpetual anime has two sides, it just depends on which way you look and whether you have the option to turn around.
A traumatic experience can become an obsession or lead to an addiction. You can get stuck in it, or you can run away from it. You experience an energy leak, or an internal pressure. If we look at the clock: you get blind spots. If you cannot look at your own past, you cannot connect new events to it. This not only affects your filter, but also your energy management. And that can express itself in your brain, body and/or the relationship with the other person. I understand that Maté saw a connection between trauma and various mental, physical and social disorders.
Where in your body?
Now the question: how do you relate this to your body? This requires another small step, which you may have already taken yourself when you compared the pictures in figure 1. The perpetual anime describes a mini-universe. Reality and therefore humanity consists of all perpetua anima, different modules that all comprise the same spacetime, just not necessarily the same information. They are cosmic disks, but with missing qubits. Perhaps you can imagine it as all clocks, large and small, with each missing numbers. They are all clocks, with the same structure, just filled in differently.
This means that we can also read more about the bigger picture from the different parts. For example, our eyes can easily be described as a perpetual anime: they are essentially a mini version of yourself. They are the mirrors of the soul: you can see what someone has experienced. And perhaps also see where problems have occurred. This may sound like iridology, but there is also evidence of this in reputable science.
I argue for defining ourselves on the scale of spacetime. Organize everything from small to large, revolving around an origin. By not only looking at cells and organs, but also at processes. The circulatory system has its own rhythm, metabolism, your heartbeat, your cell division. Based on the orbital speed you know which one is closest to the core, just compare it with the planets around the sun. This way you can not only predict where a slowdown or acceleration will occur, but also see how deeply a signal is processed, where the blockage occurs, and what the experience refers to. In this way we can better understand the meaning of what we experience within ourselves. This is your inner compass, which lets you make choices based on what you already know deep down.
DNA
I argue that every module in our body contains the same information. This may not sound so strange: we know that every cell has the same DNA, and every organ originates from it.
Maybe you already sense it coming: I think the qubits of the universe are related to our DNA. We have known for some time that DNA has meaning. We know that pieces refer to appearances and character traits. But suppose that the four letters from the DNA are, as it were, coordinates in spacetime, where pieces of information from previous experiences are located? Our blueprint is not within us, but lies outside us, where meaning originated. A contemporary version of Plato's theory of ideas.
Further back within yourself is not only further back in your own development, to your little young self, but even further back in space-time. Evolution started with the big bang, that doesn't seem so strange to me.
What should I do with this now?
Very fair question. I hope to provide more clarity on this in the coming newsletters, when I tell you how you can combine cyclical patterns with your linear life story. You probably already know how your heart rate increases when you think about a certain experience, you feel more unstable when you have to eat, or that you worry most at 3 am. These types of patterns can become even clearer with this tool, and you can manage them even better. For example, I could accurately predict the start of my period based on the events I experienced, I knew when my resistance was lower and I was therefore more likely to get sick, and I could relate asthma attacks to traumatic experiences. In later newsletters I will describe the algorithm I used, like a Turing machine through my DNA, and how I processed my experiences in spacetime. And how I recovered, mentally, physically and socially.
In the next edition I will discuss the position of yourself to the other, why I think we can only really connect if we are together at coordinates in spacetime, and how we send each other with emotions to shared experiences in order to rewrite them together.
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The YMCK+ is a dynamic system model that describes human interaction in terms of energy through space-time. The six main questions on the way to a better understanding of yourself:
Why do I? What do I say and what not? What do I feel and what not? What do I see or miss in others?
Where am I? How do I relate what I feel to where I am? How do I connect different places and thus meanings? What is my position relative to others?
When am I? Where am I in time and what are the consequences? How do I go through my memories?
How much am I? How large are my feelings, and how do I mobilize strength to achieve my goal? How does my feeling evolving?
What or who am I experiencing? What does what I see, or experience, symbolize? How is meaning organized in space, and what do I notice about it?
How do processes work? Do I accelerate or slow down? Where do I get stuck, how do I notice it, and how can I adjust myself?
This model connects different fields of science and conveys how a common language can lead to new insights. In this newsletter, I describe how an integrated view of humanity offers a different perspective on personal and social issues: from the meaning of life, climate, health care to AI.