The Practice of Logophenia and Askesis
What is Logophenia?
Logophenia is a behavioral strategy, the art and practice of visibilizing intention, meaning, purpose, direction, and trajectory. The practice consists of a collection of gestures that are used at will throughout the day. The gestures themselves are learned ways to nudge the self into behaving one way or another. The primordial nature of these logophenic gestures is that they are of mental character but they manifest outwardly in your perception of the world.
Each gesture integrates a mental graphical vehicle and a way of projecting the vehicle onto your field of perception. The vehicles are varied, usually lines that you implement visually in your experience to connect different aspects of the present moment. The lines are not themselves there, you 'write' them with your mind onto the scene you're living. At home, for example, you could write a line between you and the next thing you're gonna do. If you're planning to start cleaning, you could draw a line to the closet where you keep the cleaning stuff. You draw the line directly in front of you and all the way to your destination. You draw it so you can follow it, so that it takes you where you want to go. Think of it as a cue or nudge to facilitate the action.
The tricky part of practicing Logophenia is that you need to know where you're going. At any point you want to use it, you need a sense or knowledge of what comes next, there is no way to implement the gestures otherwise.