Saturday, November 7, 2026
My natural inclination is to be wound up, a feeling of headiness, rushing around, and inner constriction. It feels high. But heights and transcendence, in the metaphysical sense, is “lefty loosey” not “righty tighty.”
To be wound up is pearl-clutching, gasping-for-air, lighting-one-cigarette-off-another existence. It’s a tornado of gripping thoughts uninterruptedly strung together like Christmas tree lights and coiled high through the body, screwed airtight, sealed in the throat.
Most humans do not experience decompression. It may seem to be “loosened” by drinking or other vices, but those secretly add to the turning of the screws. They don’t help you unwind, but secretly keep you gripped. Scrolling, TV watching, binge eating, and being with more people don’t unwind. Decompression is stoppage, dilation of the mind and soul, and releasing of the pent-up energies that secretly keep the snake coiled, ready to strike.
The only true decompression is inactivity. That tight feeling has to dissipate. The impulse to move quickly or pick up the phone or scroll or dust the furniture or clean the kitchen or snack on potato chips or let the mind coil up higher is a silent striker. To decompress is to come down, even if you had a good time with friends or you were part of a high-energy event the night before. Decompression takes more time than the events and thoughts that wind you up.
Decompression is vital to keeping yourself uncoupled from a noose-like “striking pose.” If there is no unwinding practice, you cannot access deeper, more focused levels of creativity. You cannot utilize the “higher mind,” which flows through open channels of the inner body.
Exhausting existence: exacerbate – exasperate – suppress – to be inhibited. Righty tighty.
Nourishing existence: calm – pleasing – creative – ongoing – allowing – releasing – slow – loose – unthreatened. Lefty loosey.
The coil [of the serpent] must unwind so you are never within “striking distance.”
Decompression is sustainable, lefty loosey, existence.
Keep the compression valve open.