Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.
Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.
Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.
Constant repetition carries conviction.
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
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