One of the theorists I share in this episode:

Ann Graybiel, a neuroscientist at MIT, researches the basal ganglia and has shown that habits and rituals function as chunking mechanisms. They compress a series of separate decisions and actions into a single automatic sequence, which reduces cognitive load. For people whose cognitive and emotional resources are already stretched by chronic illness, grief, or caregiving, a reliable creative ritual protects what is already thin. That is the reason the Threshold Scan can become its own ritual: it lowers what it takes to enter the work.