Our function in motion is affected by physical time the way a small gear is forced to rotate by larger adjacent mechanical wheels. This primate cosxiential relevance, which is inherently mechanical and of instinctive nature, cannot resist time; it believes in time and correlates time with progression and accomplishment. The task at hand is always a means to an end, a now that points to a later. But being relegated to perpetual rotation, when the later eventually arrives, our function in motion cannot but perceive it as a new now to be sacrificed for a still later. A hamster wheel that does not understand it is chasing itself.
Consequently, through the influence of our mobile-tempo-motor function on our psychology, we are prone to falling into repetitive mechanical moments: continuously dreaming random scenarios, continuously reproducing interactions with others, fixating on past events, anticipating future events, continuously humming randomly recalled songs, and many other mechanical and repetitive sequences that color our internal landscape, draining our energy, and annihilating our willingness to Be.
It easy to verify that these automatisms are fueled by mechanical momentum, rather than by our will, provided we are honest with ourselves: they do not stop when we want them to. It follows that any consxious effort to jam the wheels of our psychological automatisms will help us to observe our function in motion. This is an effort, which helps us take the first steps towards ourselves.
Nowadays, an effective area of experience in which to apply this effort is our habitual use of the cell phone. If the fluidity of our center in motion is hindered, as happens, for example, when we are forced to wait in line, in traffic or in an elevator, our function in motion seeks alternative ways to perpetuate the movement and will often return to checking our phone in vain. Therefore, a good exercise to interrupt the automatism is the discipline of checking our phone only when we are sitting.
This type of practice reveals the influence of our motor function on our psychology. If this experience is extended to other areas, where we notice that mechanical automatism prevails, then it also represents a significant step towards the creation of an internal government. By indiscriminately spreading automatism, our function in movement titanizes and eludes the other subordinate functions. By limiting its influence on the emotional and mental functions, we force it to return to its rightful place and to carry out its fundamental and instinctive role to cooperate with the divine work dictated by our Being.
The physical mind is the real challenge for he who walks towards and within himself.
