Entrainment
When we think about the things we do every day, we think about the actions we do. Like eat food, brush our teeth, go to the bathroom, go to sleep, exercise, sit on the couch, etc.
When we think about these daily things, we rarely think about it from the perspective of what’s being done to us. We are continually on the receiving end of things being done to us. We are surrounded by air, we have sunshine hit our skin. We are spoken to, we have animals look upon us. We have electricity in our field. We have media broadcast. We are entrained.
Of all the things I mentioned above, you can clearly visualize and explain the acts. For the most part you can explain the effects on you. How’s your ability at explaining your personal experience with entrainment? Have you tried to explain this? Does it matter to you?
If you live within mainstream society, if you watch tv or some form on media, you are continually being entrained. If you engage on social media and browse online, you are being entrained. From overt instances like advertisements, to more subtle effects as inclusion, omission, design and intended bias.
What is this process like for you? What are the effects you sense? For instance, when having the sunshine hit your skin, there’s a feeling of warmth. In many instances it feels good, and can occasionally feel harmful if to hot or too long.. There’s also a synthesis going on in your body as you process Vitamin D. There’s an aspect of that experience to which you don’t see or have sensory awareness of as it’s happening?
Can you dissect your entrainment in such a way? There’s no Vitamin D being produced. There are neurological effects, like increased dopamine. What feelings come along with excessive entrainment. Are we ever fully capable of dissecting the contributing factors of feeling anxious, depressed, stressed, overwhelmed or apathetic. How do we determine if these things are related to our entrainment?