Before we move on, we will use financial bookkeeping as a metaphore to understand my point, but instead of currency we are talking about mental energy as fund and YIN and Yang as Debit and Credit.
Cravity strikes often occurs in situations with positive or negative affection, eg. an external event that alter moods in either direction, good or bad.
For example, it was not intended to be any eating planned in a subject of getting into the city to fullfill a task such handing in a paper or meeting a friend. But a simple mistake and everything are spoiled.
I get to the meeting but unexpected things occured which caused the person not being there or there was a misunderstanding of the appointment. The problem that arise now is that a certain amount of mental energy has been invested in getting to the appointment, but the desired reward did never be fullfilled. The transaction of investing mental energy (getting there) (YIN) in exchange of the reward of the meeting (YANG) was interrupted and the booking does not balance, you are on a YIN value.
| Account | Yin | Yang |
|---|---|---|
| Mental energy | 280 | |
| Getting to the appointment | 280 | |
| Desired reward | 280 | |
| Accumulated Reward | ERROR | |
| Balance | 280 | 560 |
The transaction is invalid, and the system get an overdraft. In order to correct this, the system need to take a loan due to low liquidity, and the loan is called sweet food.
The new transaction now looks like this
280| Account | Yin | Yang |
|---|---|---|
| Mental energy | 280 | |
| Getting to the appointment | 280 | |
| Desired reward | 280 | |
| Accumulated Reward | ERROR | |
| Health risk (Debt) | 280 | |
| Enjoyment (Fast Food) | 560 | |
| Balance | 840 | 840 |
As you see, the loan puts additional strain with its interest. This is like using a high fee overdraft to cover the suddent inbalance, with puts big strain on the company's future finances and decreased credit worth.
Delayed gratisfaction as a mental line of checking account credit
Many companies has a checking credit connected to their checking account, which might have a significant lower interest rate than the hefty overdraft fees, which can help survive the expenses while the reward (income) are deferred so the company doesn't have to be late with payments or take expensive loans.
Wikipedia states strategies for increasing self control such directing attention to competeting rewards such focusing on other stimulis to defer the desire of rewards.
Aquafulness, which was initially developed as a solution to restore supply of aquatic harmony that was blocked by the fungal crisis, has been pointed out as a potential candidate for a such strategy to defer gratisfaction, as that meditative aquatic stimuli could act as a competetiting reward, as it would be a kind of 'credit line' with 'funds' to use when the ordinary transaction fails. However, the system has still high upfront costs of pre-seeding before it would actually make a positive ROI.
However, this does not defer the biological response of hunger and craving because the desire for food is a hardware-related concern that is hard to overcome only through this manner.
In order to defer gratisfaction, a compromise could be a great way, in which both the meditation method and a physical substitute for the cravity desire work together to reimburse the need of unhealthy food.
In practical, two common ways are presumtive strategies such brushing teeth before going out (the toothpaste aftertaste will provide a 'lock' of the tastebud) and substitutive method such buying bottled water to drink, to stimulate the digestive system, giving double meaning of Aquafulness.
Another factor is the weather and transportation failures. Often a strike is caused by that the weather is cold and it is hard to get back, because the bus has stopped running or takes time to wait for.
Another error that often occurs is that two events interferes with each other. If there is a scheduled appointment at 1 PM, and at the morning went out for fulling another duty, and then realize that its only two hours left before the planned task (which was forgotten before getting out), a return home would be a waste of time, and you will stay out. To spend the time, eating is often a way. This is poor planning.
The road to solution
The resolution of this concern was crucial for making the success of today in AD 2022 a reality as this was a vital component for most of the other insights that made the difference in the life.
During the four years between 2018 until 2022, we made use of the success of Aquafulness in 2018 and built upon it to extend to more areas just than aquatic seeding.
One blockbuster was the breaking out from childhood presumptions and bias in favor for new established ways to embrace real life situations. Four years ago, back in 2018, I was still attached to the case that sweet food are the way to celebrate, comfort in various situation. But as I built on the spiritual practice of breaking the habit of dependencies to real life, I believed that, just like how we detached the aquatic income from the physical execution of aquatic life in favor for spiritual provocation of the aquatic seeding, we believe this approach could be taken further, as an identity.
It is all about killing old evil cows that prevents changing core behaviur.
One thinking route is to make indifference of the presence of the reward: If the restaurant (good stimuli) never existed, everything would work. So it must work by not having the restaurant as the desired reward for this situation. Consider the it must work doctrine we dealed with in a previous door.
But as a part of the decision tree also is controlled by biological means such blood sugar and so on, we cannot only rely on mental stuff, but also on the coordination of the tasks.
A situation of bad habits are often preceded by a chain of bad habits that has caused the poor timing to create the exploit that causes the bad habit. In the example of the meeting that never went, the overdraft of mental energy the earlier days due to other impulses that drains energy (which itself comes from bad self control), which causes poor sleep, causes miscalculation and forgetting stuff, which was the cause of the missed appointment with the exploit as consequence which lead to bad habit. The interaction between different wishes and interest are cruicial.
The bottom line: Interventions on several aspects, both biological, planning and attention are crucial in order to prevent craving strikes.
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