What is
Mental
Gravity?

Gravity was once very one-sided.

‍Rockets. Physics. Engineering. For most of history, the science of gravity belonged to a cool, distant, technical world where emotions were checked at the door.

That story is changing. Outer space belongs to everyone now. If we can share the sky, we can share the language of what gravity does to us on the inside.

Outer space. Inner space. Both are ours.
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‍Gravity out there is measured in newtons and visible in the arc of a spacecraft. Gravity in here is measured in weight of feeling, in the pull of emotion, in the way a hard morning presses on your chest and a moment of joy lifts your spirits. The science of embodied cognition is unambiguous: our emotional lives have verticality, weight, balance, and movement. These are real forces. They just happen inside.

Your emotional life has weight.
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‍Happiness feels light and sadness feels heavy. Even a child understands this without being taught. Think of Cathy Freeman's gold medal run at the 2000 Sydney Olympics: burdened by the hopes of a nation before the race, floating on a cloud through it, then sitting down to remove her shoes and feel the ground beneath her as the crowd erupted. The gravity of the inner situation was impossible to ignore.

‍Mental Gravity is a way of understanding that your emotional life has verticality, weight, balance, and movement, shaped by forces as real as those that govern the physical world.
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