True presence acts as an excitant because it makes the mundane "impossible to ignore". It turns a simple walk in the park or a late-night conversation into a peak experience of raw life energy. 3. The Excitant of Connection
If you feel drained, it might not be that you lack "excitants" in your life, but that you are reacting to the wrong ones. excitant
In its simplest form, an excitant is an external agent that increases physiological or nervous activity. It’s a catalyst. In our daily lives, we are surrounded by them: the ping of a notification, the first sip of espresso, the roar of a crowd. However, these are often "shallow excitants." They offer a spike in energy followed by an inevitable crash, leaving our internal landscape unchanged. True presence acts as an excitant because it