You're eating the world and the world is eating you.

Though it started out as a fascinating hunch, it has become crystal clear that the body-mind of a human being functions as a self-charging information processor. The basic role of the body-mind is to receive, store, convert and transfer information from one form into another in order to create, sustain and witness life. It functions wholly as one thing - in symbiosis with the environment - but each system has a slightly different role in sorting, processing and expressing information. In reductive terms, think of it as a production line. If one element of the system is functioning poorly, there is a back-log, a gap or a distortion in the flow of information from one system to another and therefore a blockage in the flow of energy. For those who are ‘energy’ skeptics and inflame at the thought of pseudoscience, consider that net result of every biochemical or psychophysiological process is to create or harness energy for survival. Then consider that we evaluate the worthiness of an action based on return on effort: the food we eat, the air we breathe, the blood that flows in our veins, the mental problems we solve at work and the relationships we invest in. At the most basic level, living is simply an energy equation, this energy is transferred through the human system in there form of information, in both gross, easily noticeable ways and more subtle, less noticeable ways.

For example, everything we consume through the senses (whether we’re reading, listening, watching, touching, tasting or some other sense) contains its own genetic information. For this information to be integrated properly, the entire being should be present and with the information assimilation process. If we’re distracted (watching a crime show on TV while eating dinner) then the information our eyes are seeing is separate from the information our tastebuds are sensing. This makes processing less efficient, because there are essentially more tabs open at once. If you’re not sure how this would have any meaningful effect, just imagine eating in a war-zone with artillery fire exploding around you. Clearly, you’d be pre-occupied. Your sympathetic nervous system would be tuning up the exterior muscles and borrowing as much blood flow (a form of potential energy) as possible away from digestion in order to cope with the surroundings. It’s an extreme example, but now imagine that you’re watching the same thing on television while eating, and it’s a really good movie, so you’re getting a little wound-up. To a lesser extent, the same shift in your nervous system will be happening; towards fight or flight and away from digestion. Do this often enough, and the subtle effects accumulate to become more significant. If you’re super healthy, it might not matter at all, but if you’ve got adrenal fatigue and indigestion, it does.

So, in short, do one thing at a time if you want to experience peak human bliss. Close your tabs and be here.