Try Looking Through Someone Else’s Eyes

Things are always several things at the same time.

Whether we’re talking about an atom, a person, or a wooden table – things are never just one thing.

A depression, for example, is also sadness.

A person doesn’t just have autism – they also like ice cream (or they don’t).

An atom is only an atom if you look at it from that angle.

We humans are world champions at looking at things in roughly the same way. I’d like to advise you to also listen to people who look at the same thing differently.

A big bang is only a big bang if you look from that angle. A creation is only a creation if you look from the other.

How to Move In and Out of Psychosis

We often think of psychiatric diseases as “brain things.”
Anorexia is a brain thing.
Psychosis is a brain thing.

But it doesn’t work like that. Most psychiatric conditions are states of the whole body.

I’ve tried to get my body into as many different states as possible. When you hit certain states, you become psychotic or anorexic.

Why is this important?
Because this is almost impossible to spot — for both the patient and the doctor.

A simple example:
Let’s say that I push my feelings away internally. This isn’t visible from the outside. And when I’ve been doing this wrong for a long time, I don’t even know that I’m doing it myself.

Now let’s add a component: I push my feelings away by controlling what I eat. These are both things that don’t just happen in the brain — they happen in the whole body.

The result? Anorexia.
Now I go to the doctor. Since there’s no way to see that my internal balance is off, the doctor has no choice but to label me with a psychiatric disease.
But there’s nothing wrong with my brain.

My whole body is in a state of anorexia. The balance within my entire system is off.
And the sad part is that even I forget that, because it all started with something small in my behavior years ago — like pushing emotions away.

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The difference is very, very important.

It’s either:

• I have a psychosis that happens in my brain,
  or

• My whole body is in a state of psychosis.

The latter is correct, because your body consists of countless small processes that together form one overall state.
And if that state is psychotic, it can have multiple underlying reasons.

But that’s not even the most important part. When you see your whole body as being in a state of psychosis, it becomes much easier to see what to do.
It shifts your focus from “brain disorder” to “I need to take care of my whole body.”

Taking care of the whole body is a matter of balance.

Can you feel the inside of your whole body right now?
And how does it feel?

I’ve tried this numerous times — and managed to do it.
I’ve been in psychosis, got my body into a state of anorexia (very, very rough), depression, and anxiety.

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Psychosis doesn’t like baking cakes

Imagine that you could see yourself from the outside when being in a state of psychosis. Like you could parent yourself. What would you do?

You probably wouldn’t take out your monocle and inspect the brain — which is the equivalent of what modern psychiatry does.

You would likely do something human. You would reassure the person, or start baking a cake together. That’s actually what would get that other person’s body into a different state — a state of relaxation, or even a meditative state.

Some practical tips
When your body is in a bad state:

1. Start by feeling as bad as you possibly can. Acknowledge that bad state. Try to feel as scared and paranoid as possible.

2. Then start practicing with other states. You’re already in a state of psychosis — now try adding other states as well, like dancing, moving, running — things that change the state of your whole body simultaneously.

I always visualize this as grabbing my whole body and kicking myself outside. I want to hesitate, but before I’ve thought about it, I’ve already kicked myself out.

The mistake you make with quantum theory

You try to have one theory that describes everything at a fundamental level. This doesn’t work, so you start mixing in things like probability.

But the beauty of this universe is that different ways of looking at it can all be true at the same time.

So the point is not to have one unified theory — it’s safer to have everybody think autonomously. In this way, what we think about it becomes more balanced, and everybody can form their own opinion.

So multiple theories can be right at the same time: we all describe the same thing from different perspectives. Just like time, for instance, is nothing more than perspective — everything happens at the same time, but where you are it might be dark, and here the sun is still up.

You think the world is made up of atoms. But it’s only made up of atoms because you look at it from that perspective — it’s the angle you view it from.

If you stop looking from that angle, atoms no longer exist. You think this is unimaginable because everywhere you look, you see atoms. But you’re constantly viewing reality through the same lens.

Does that mean atoms don’t exist? No.

If you want to know how something falls, it’s best to listen to the sound it makes.

Some sounds stick. I just dropped my wallet on the table, and it made a stuck, tense sound. Then I dropped it again, and this time it made a defiant, almost brutal sound.