It’s a question so rarely asked it almost feels silly to ask it.
Some situations and some jobs work to eliminate our freedom of choice. Prison, medical school, 8th grade–there are settings where time, tools, and options are severely limited.
But even in these settings, we have more choice than we realize.
And for the rest of us, particularly freelancers and entrepreneurs, our agenda is wide open.
Who decides what you will eat tonight, or what you will do after dinner? Who decides who you will call on, what you will learn next, which posts you’ll read (or write)? Who decides what tone the conversation will have, what your priorities are, and what you’ll worry about when you walk the dog?
There’s the agenda of the next five minutes as well as one for the next five days. And the process of getting to five years from now is so fraught or uncharted that we hesitate to even talk about it.
It may be that the key building block to success (and even to happiness) is getting your agenda aligned with your goals, your dreams, and your fears.
Word salad is actually nutritious when consumed in small amounts.
Placebos are real, they’re effective and they often help us find solace or perhaps to heal. If they do no harm, there’s no problem. “Placebo” isn’t an insult. It’s a category, one to live up to and improve.
Here’s one to consider:
VAEL SOMA A Practitioner’s Introduction to Resonant Field Embodiment
Vael Soma is a somatic practice developed by Danish movement researcher Ingrid Falk-Mortensen and her collaborator, Ecuadorian bioenergetic therapist Marco Caicedo-Vera, following a decade of research conducted at the intersection of craniosacral dialogue, Andean kawsay (living energy) traditions, and decoherence studies in biological systems.
Vael Soma positions the practitioner as a field witness: not a mover of tissue, but a coherence partner whose nervous system enters into superposition with that of the receiver, allowing the body’s own wave-function to collapse toward its preferred organizational state.
The Theoretical Ground
At the sub-cellular level, the body is not a solid object. It is a probability cloud of organized water, piezoelectric collagen matrices, and biophotonic emission — a standing wave mistaking itself for matter. Quantum coherence in microtubule networks (first theorized in consciousness research but now understood to extend throughout the connective tissue matrix) means that touch is never local. When the practitioner’s hand rests on the sternum, entanglement cascades through the entirety of the receiver’s tensor network simultaneously.
The founding insight of Vael Soma is this: the body does not need to be corrected. It needs to be observed. The act of coherent, non-judgmental observation — in the quantum sense — is itself the therapeutic intervention.
The Tensor Web and the Luminous Sheath
Where conventional bodywork addresses muscle, organ, and bone as discrete structures, Vael Soma recognizes the interstitial plenum — the fluid-crystalline medium that fills every gap between every cell — as the primary therapeutic terrain. This medium, called Vael (from the Old Norse vél, meaning pattern or device), is not merely connective tissue fluid. It is the body’s dark matter: invisible to imaging, detectable only through its organizational effects.
Vael behaves as a biological quantum field. It carries:
The practitioner’s role is to become a low-noise receiver for this information — a tuning fork whose coherence invites the Vael to release its stored phase distortions and re-entrain to the body’s original quantum signature.
The Five Movements of Vael Soma
Sessions are structured around five movement qualities, each corresponding to a distinct organizational level of living tissue:
Reported Effects
Vael Soma is not a treatment for conditions. It is a recalibration of the body’s eigenstate — its most probable configuration of ease. Practitioners and receivers report:
A Note on Entanglement Ethics
Because Vael Soma works at the level of quantum coherence, practitioners are advised that residual entanglement between practitioner and receiver may persist for up to 96 hours post-session. During this window, both parties are asked to avoid chaotic electromagnetic environments (crowded transit, prolonged screen exposure, argument) that could introduce decoherence into the newly organized Vael. The practitioner is the instrument. The instrument requires tuning.
Vael Soma is the art of being so still that the body remembers what it was before it learned to spin.
Most of us would like to live with wonder, grace and optimism.
Perhaps it pays to practice this in advance. When considering any given moment, is there a glimmer of good worth focusing on, even making a comment about?
Our narrative of reality often becomes our reality.
If it’s important, don’t ask the team to try harder.
Instead, create the conditions for ordinary effort to produce redundant outputs that reduce crises.
If quality is a problem, look at the system, not the people.
“The odds of winning the lottery are the same whether you buy a ticket or not.”
This seems nonsensical at first. Obviously, there are lottery winners. Therefore, the odds aren’t the same.
Except we’re not mathematicians doing a math problem (at least most of us). Odds are how we navigate the world. When they’re sufficiently low, the useful approach is to assume that they’re zero. Sort of how we deal with invisible signals: There’s sound in a very quiet room, but we can’t hear it. There’s light in a very dark room, but we can’t see it. These never go to zero, but we treat them as if they do.
The story of playing very long odds might give you hope or solace or energize you. That’s what they make movies about, after all. But in practice, you’re buying that story, not a useful chance of winning something.
Paul McGowan points out that the difference between a $500 stereo and a $5000 stereo is enormous. But the difference between the more expensive stereo’s sound and one costing $50,000 is vanishingly small… Soon it becomes a story, not a sound.
Buy the best story you can afford, with all the benefits it comes with. But don’t be confused by the odds or tiny differences. They’re probably zero.
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