The individual matrix (or individual self) is a living, dynamic and open system. A multitude of interdependent subsystems are nested, connected and synchronized to give integrity to this matrix, and thus sustain both the body and the mind. In addition, the individual interacts with the environment through different attentional mechanisms, most of which function as true nourishing processes. As I have already outlined, human beings can be divided into three areas: physical, psychological and transpersonal. Each of these areas responds to different stimuli and creates its own responses.
In Emoenergetica, the concept of nutrition is much broader than is commonly accepted, and refers to any incorporation of matter, energy or information from the environment into the individual. Nutrition, in general, is the process through which systems relate to the environment in which they are located. If we conceptually isolate any of our parts (the body, the mind, the subtlesoma, a cell, an organ, a cognitive function, etc.) and treat it as if it were an individual system, then the environment in which it lives and nourishes itself, its universe, would be ourselves – the attentional bubble that we represent. The ultimate goal of nutrition is the renewal and incorporation of resources, which will be used in the conservation, growth and development of the different structures and functions of the individual matrix.
The individual and their different components are continuously affected by the action of entropy: the wear and tear inherent in the very nature of existence. One can observe, through the study of the six foundations and their relationships, that the dynamism that the tonal is capable of generating results in the appearance of entropy, which is a type of energy that it is no longer possible to use. As we already know, in order to offset entropy and avoid its increase, it is necessary to spend a certain amount of energy over time: to work. Therefore, it is necessary to permanently sustain a multitude of internal feedback processes, as well as exchanges with the exterior, in order to renew and maintain energy levels, balance and symmetry – both in the structures and in the functions of the individual matrix.
Functions are activity-generating programs and structures are their containers, as well as the machinery that executes them. Any nutritional process (in other words, the incorporation or absorption of matter, energy or external information) is followed by a phase of digestion or transformation and then by another of assimilation and use. Afterwards, the process culminates, on the one hand, with the attempt to evacuate and eliminate unnecessary waste and, on the other, with a series of reactions and responses towards the interior and exterior that will, once again, be linked to other nutritional and relationship processes. Life is a flow of continuity.
Each subsystem that is present in the individual requires a different type of nutrition, depending on its own nature and functions. All subsystems must serve the individual matrix; the ultimate purpose of the latter is the conservation, increase and perpetuation of the awareness of being, on the one hand, through the protection of life itself, and on the other, through the process we have called evolution, both in its horizontal (biological, cultural, social, group) and vertical (transpersonal, spiritual, individual) dimensions. The different parts of the individual exchange a great deal of energy and information with each other and with the environment – they are nourished. The individual matrix, which is largely tonal, is in a permanent intent to function synergistically, as a whole with the effective capacity of conveying an awareness of being (of a nagual nature) which manifests and models itself through the mind. This, in turn, settles into a physical body, which is associated with an subtle field that gives it life and anima so that it can be and exist within a space and time.
- The physical body needs nutrition in the form of food; but it also needs respiration, water, sunlight, physical activity, sleep, rest, as well as nutrition from both the mind and the subtlesoma.
- The mind needs to be nourished by information coming from the senses, by emotions, relationships with others and with the world, intellectual learning, reading, writing, music, art, language and communication, knowledge, thought, understanding and also by nutrition from the physical body and the subtlesoma.
- Human beings' subtlesoma – which forms part of both the body and the mind in order to connect them – needs to be nourished, on the one hand, by the subtle energies of the Earth, the Sun, the Cosmos and, on the other hand, by what we call reality and the experiences that are lived through consciousness of that symbiosis between the inner world and the outer world, which is also nourished by the energy coming from both the physical body and the energy that comes from the mind.
In this way, the individual processes the different types of external matter-energy-information which, as soon as they are transformed internally, serve as nutrition, in general, for the individual matrix itself and, in particular, for its internal world. Once the nourishment has been acquired by the individual matrix, it produces different responses towards the environment. In the same instant that the individual matrix incorporates its nutrition from the external world (in the form of sensory and emotional data, or as matter and energy), it begins to be assimilated and transformed, which results in the generation of a new processed flow of energy, matter or information that will unfold into three different streams:
- The first of these will express itself in the form of some kind of response, movement, reaction or emission towards the environment.
- The second processed stream of energy-information will dump directly into one's own individual matrix, either into the body (physical part plus associated subtlesoma) or into the mind, usually both.
- The third will be reintegrated in an indirect way into the inner world, into one's own mind, but this time it will be carried out as if it were a completely new input of external data.
In this way, a feedback phenomenon occurs in which both the body and the mind have, on the one hand, a truly exogenous form of nutrition and, on the other, the mind performs a kind of endogenous self-nutrition, which will in any case also affect the body as well as itself (either positively or negatively). This maintains a recurring cycle of emission and assimilation of responses, both from and to the exterior, and, in the same way, from and to the interior, in which body, mind and environment remain intertwined. This is why any matter, energy or information introduced into the individual matrix always causes some kind of change therein – it is nourishing it indirectly; the environment is nourished, in turn, by our own states. This same feedback mechanism is also the one that produces the perception of the world and the rest of the attentional phenomena that, reciprocally, create and sustain reality by means of intertwining the observer and the observed.
In this world, there comes a time when the nutritional process of the individual matrix comes to a complete halt; sometimes due to the inherent wear and tear of the system of life on Earth, or due to an irreversible loss of symmetry, for example, due to a state of disease, or to trauma so great as to cause the complete inability of the individual matrix to continue processing the stimuli or energy coming from the medium, that is, to maintain the link between the observer and the observed. At that point, life ends, death ensues, which represents a massive and irreversible increase in entropy, with a complete loss of symmetry and of nutritional, biological, energetic and attentional functions with respect to the environment in which the individual found themselves.
On the other hand, as long as a flow of stimuli and nutrients is maintained, balanced processes and responses (generators of symmetry), then the tendency is towards continuity, and development can follow. When the stimuli, processes and responses are inadequate (generators of entropy), the structure of the individual matrix may not be completely broken, but it will lose its dynamic equilibrium, moving towards a state of greater disorder, as a consequence of disadaptation or, seen from another perspective, as an inefficient adaptive response mechanism to losses or deficiencies, thus losing its previous level of energy and its possibilities of development. This wear and tear or lack of evolution can be observed in the totality of the individual, or separately, in some of their aspects: physical, psycho-emotional or transpersonal.
Every function is a structure with the capacity to generate activity – both positive and negative. In living systems, functions consume energy in order to continue to exist and, accordingly, require constant nutrition. Our thoughts are also functions, so it is vital to bear in mind that a negative thought is similar to a bad employee, who you pay in return for not doing for you what you need them to do. To indulge in negative thoughts is to do so in exchange for generating an increase in blockages, losses and wear which, in turn, will feed back into one's own negative thoughts. A good thought also consumes energy, although it does so in exchange for generating some kind of favourable gain or yield. Positive thoughts facilitate the flow of psychological and vital energy, as well as the execution of symmetrical functions that, in turn, can obtain nourishment in greater quality and quantity.
Thoughts are an essential part of our inner workings, and, they will ultimately be externalized towards the environment through speech and behaviour, and reflected, in some way, in the body itself. At the egoic stage, which is where humanity currently finds itself, much of this mental activity is automatically driven by perverse emotional structures, which compulsively try to recruit energy in order to nourish themselves. Perverse functions are so because they harm the rest of the system and work only for their own sake, parasitizing the individual, obtaining the nutrition they need at the price of stealing energy from the individual matrix, eventually taking control of the whole, thus becoming a source of pain and physical or emotional suffering, or simple human mediocrity. Perverse deviations also tend to attempt to carry out this process of parasitism through other people with whom the individual relates, using behavioural patterns based on dominator-dominated roles, blackmail and bribery, emotional dependence, self-pity, and so on.
Poor nutrition, at any level, generates perverse automatic functions as well as excessive expenditure of vital, psychological or conscious energy. Later on, we will examine in detail the different categories in which the negative functions of the mind are classified within the Emoenergetica model.
Thus, we are three-dimensional beings: physical, psychological and transpersonal. These levels are interrelated, retaining their own uniqueness, and each of them has its own nutritional needs. Likewise, when we come into this world, we inherit a body and a series of conditions that are the fruits of the nourishment and experience of our ancestors. Illness, imbalance, health, access to resources and the possibilities for personal evolution will all be expressed as a result of the interaction between what we inherit in the first place, together with the combination of decisions made and experiences lived, which will result in being exposed to different positive or negative stimuli. The following are some examples of bad nutrition for each level:
- Perverse nutrition at the physical level: weak constitution, poor nuclear or mitochondrial genetics (loss of symmetry by our ancestors, inheritance); problems in the fetal stage or at birth, bad parental and ancestral habits or other problems transmitted via epigenetics; malformations and alterations in childhood development or growth; accidents, injuries, traumatisms, scars, diseases; physical stress, physical fatigue; maladaptation to natural or artificial electromagnetic fields, exposure to ionizing radiation; excess or lack of sunlight; adverse environmental and climatic conditions, pollution; lack or excess of hygiene; food of poor quality or excessive quantity, malnutrition, dehydration, poor water quality; toxic, infectious agents; drugs or alcohol, tobacco, side effects of medications; lack or excess of physical exercise, lack or excess of physical stimuli; aging, etc.
- Perverse nutrition at the psycho-emotional level: worries, anxiety, anguish, maladaptation, disorientation, feeling of unrootedness, psycho-emotional stress; negative experiences in the fetal stage or at birth, unsatisfactory or harmful relationships with the mother, father, family or environment in childhood; abuse, demands, expectations, frustrations, pressures, contempt; lack or excess of affection, attention or support in childhood and adolescence; addictions, obsessions, compulsions, manias, phobias, depression; self-pity, anger with others and the world; ignorance; inappropriate or limiting interpersonal relationships; bad relationships at the level of family, friendships, partner or working environment; emotional dependencies; inadequate educational or professional development; economic difficulties or mismanagement of money and resources; unwanted situations that nevertheless persist in time, traumatic, frightening, violent experiences; perverse coercions, impositions or prohibitions coming from society, from figures of power, or from oneself; limited or inadequate lifestyles, ideas or learning; poorly developed or mismanaged sexuality, intimidation or sexual aggression; blackmail, bribery, guilt, manipulation, betrayal, debts; fragmentation of attention, consumerism; pursuit of happiness; idleness; lack of self-esteem, distortions in self-image...
- Perverse nutrition at the transpersonal level: existential disorientation, conflicts with the idea of God or life, religious, spiritual conflicts, etc.; limiting beliefs about life and death or about the idea of God; denial of the transpersonal dimension of human beings, or its excessive exaltation; desire for salvation, karma, etc.
Some of these negative stimuli are unavoidable, but others can be avoided because, although part of you is an automaton, the other part is a selfhood. Each and every day, at each and every moment one chooses from within the existing possibilities – this is using our degree of freedom. Remember, not choosing is the same as automatically making the decision to go in the inertial direction; sometimes this is favourable, at other times it is terrible. It seems that nature impels beings to improve themselves and to choose, in a more elaborate way the more complex we are. You are a genuinely complex being, so what are you nourished by?
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