I keep reading about the importance of recapitulation with all its benefits.
But any time it is mentioned either here or in the books, I shrug and get a weird feeling of alienation. Like this does not apply to me and I don't know why.
The main reason being that I have almost nothing in my life worth recapitulating. So far it has been a simple life without much going on(and I'm grateful for it). All my core memories can be recapitulated in like minutes. I can still recapitulate small information like making a cup of tea or walking around the block if you guys tell me that I gain something. (Do I?)
But even if it's a core memory, I just don't care about it. It feels completely useless. Like watching a morning TV gossip show.
I may have been embarrassed in front of 100 people or said something stupid (like my first post here) but still can't care. It's all been taken away by the river. Only the present & future kind of matters in my current "brain-wiring".
Do I really NEED to recapitulate ? I don't see any point other than clearing energetic "fingerprints", cutting of old patterns to make way for new things. Is there another, underlying reason that my "tonal logic" can't see?
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Understood.
We don't recapitulate, only to keep from being continually drawn into, and trapped, in past trauma.
It's also to prevent idle reminiscing.
In order to see we need to shift our beam of awareness away from memory, and onto the dynamic universe that's unfolding in front of us.
We need *fluidity.
The most efficient manner to achieve that is to thoroughly cover it all in focused recap, as a process...rather than haphazardly dipping into it as an idle indulgence.
Some psychologists call that "recreational anxiety" (rehashing/repeating things, neurotically). Which kind of betrays how bored we are with our current view (assemblage point position).
Thank you.