The "Cause & Effect" Framework

Biomechanics is the cause of everything? Hahahaha

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My penpal, EGR, hit me with a couple of great voice memos the other day and I knew I had to turn it into a post.

He’d used the framework of ‘cause & effect’ to frame just how much these biomechanics influence us in a wide variety of ways.

I thought it was very good, logical way of thinking about it.

And so today i’m going to share my interpretation of the framework he explained to me.

So what is the ‘cause & effect’ framework?

Well it’s pretty simple in its essence.

Essentially there is only one cause for lots of things and that is biomechanics.

And the rest are all effects. Sometimes immediate or sometimes second and third level effects.

For example perhaps you have a disease like dementia or autism.

Or perhaps you are obese.

Or you have a difficult time concentrating and get nervous around others.

Or you don’t like eating certain foods because they don’t agree with your stomach.

These are ALL effects.

And the root cause of all of them are biomechanics. Not all of the stuff the modern world currently believes. Those things are still ‘effects’ and if you keep going a level deeper you will eventually get to biomechanics.

Can biomechanics really be the cause of everything?

The way to think about this is by just continuously asking the question why?

Let’s take an example like the food you eat. How do you determine what you eat each day?

Well perhaps certain things upset your stomach.

Why? Most likely because your internal organs are a bit compensated from biomechanics.

Now let’s say that we’re talking about selecting between foods that do not upset your stomach. How do you choose which one to eat?

Well this is controlled by your thoughts. But what then controls your thoughts?

Well your body is helping craft these thoughts based on what it needs. And what it needs is based on biomechanics like my Pica example in this article:

Who am I.... really?

My biomechanics are improving, for example, and so my thoughts tell me “hey Ken.. eat whatever the hell you want. You will get healthier anyway!”

So that is what I do. And I get healthier each day regardless.

When I was in my early 30’s I was very sensitive to certain foods and deemed eating healthy as being very important. Why? Well because my body was compensated and my biomechanics were essentially sending this message to my brain. Out of necessity/survival.

I meet others starting out in the Reviv community that are very compensated and have stories where their mood and function are very dependent on what they eat. Because of their biomechanics.

And as they improve with Reviv I have no doubt that at some point their bodies will start to tell them… “Yeah… you know those potato chips i was telling you not to eat earlier. Actually they’re fine now. Go ahead and chow down!” lol

How do you test this theory?

Now the theory sounds very outlandish right?

I mean it is essentially saying that biomechanical structure is responsible for pretty much everything related to how a human being acts, thinks, functions, etc.

A few years ago my biomechanics dictated that I was quieter, less confident, less comfortable around others.

Now my biomechanics tell me “Fuck that… be bold.”

So how do you see if this is true of everyone? What would a test look like and how could you prove definitively whether it is true or false?

Well some examples would be:

• If someone that was shy and uncomfortable around others remained that way regardless of doing Reviv and improving their biomechanics for years.

• If someone who was very specific about the things that they can eat remains that way after improving their biomechanical structure.

• If someone who has thinning hair is not able to get their hair back after a few years of Reviv.

• If someone still feels the need to meditate after a few years of fixing themselves with Reviv.

• And so on… I think you get the point.

The main point is… if there is something that does not change after years of improving with these biomechanics then perhaps that is an inherent part of who you are!

And my experience doing this process multiple times in the past decade is… you will be very very surprised at just how little is left of the old you in a few years.

Closing thoughts

This ‘cause & effect’ framework is extremely powerful when you think about it.

Because it gives you a way of thinking about almost any problem a human can have.

And the answer in the end will come down to biomechanical structure as the root cause.

Which might beg a different question…

…if everything is a result of biomechanics then if we all perfect our biomechanics do we all become the same? Maybe our personalities are all the same too?

And this is where I think we will all retain some of our own flavor. Kind of like if you’re hanging out with a bunch of models and they all seem the same to you at first.

But the minute you get to know them more you’d start to realize some are still smarter than others, some are still funnier than others, etc.

So there is some degree to which genetics and how you grew up still plays some role.

But I have a feeling that part is more like the screensaver on your laptop.

And all of the processing power and logic inside… well that is the biomechanics. And it either works as it was designed or you damaged it and it is slightly malfunctioning.

Till the day you grab your Reviv and fix it ;)