This is the 1st Principle from my most important article for you.

Orienting is your attention directed at the environment.

It is a vital biological ability, automatically organized by the nervous system.

Orienting is when you assess your surroundings using senses and the motor system.

Society takes away or distorts this ability, usually without malicious intent, but as part of tradition and culture. Many of society's rules force us to ignore our inner ability to be attentive and to correctly assess the situation, because society systems prefer to give us a ready answer, so you don't have to really think and feel.

Orienting is needed to gather information and understand the environment I am in: safe or dangerous, pleasant or unpleasant, adequate or not adequate, etc.

Think of a baby who has a natural ability to focus his gaze and direct his attention to objects.

Think of a child who fell on the playground and immediately looked towards her parent.

Think of an adult who finds himself in a crowd of unknown people and looks for someone he knows.

If you feel unmotivated, disinterested, drained, lost — do orienting, start right now looking around for a moment! Notice your surroundings.

Best materials on orienting on Irene Lyon's website and YouTube channel


Types of orienting:

- defensive (attention to sources of threat)
- exploratory (attention to curiousity and pleasure stimuli)


If you have been stressed and traumatized, you're likely in a defensive orienting towards the world, and are not using exploratory orienting enough.

You struggle to achieve your goals because you don't really see the world around you for what it is — a beautiful space full of opportunities for you. You see constant threats instead.

The stress we experience from our life circumstances affects our perception and causes us to lose touch with the present.

We live in the past and in the future in an attempt to avoid emotional (mental, physical) suffering, and this dicrupts our contact with the environment, and subsequently, with ourselves.

Without orienting function, you stop navigating your life.

IN BRIEF:

Orienting is needed to correctly detect threats or curiousity/pleasure stimuli.

Orienting does NOT mean changing your sensations or the environment.

Orienting IS observing sensations and the environment.

Do you feel lost and disconnected from the world? Does looking around raises anxiety?

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