Fruition and Zone 2: When Doing Becomes Being

“Fruition is the instant when the body acts without expecting return — when doing is itself being.” — Jackson Cionek

First-Person Consciousness

There are moments when time stretches.
The body moves with such deep naturalness that there is no thought — only presence.
Everything seems to unfold effortlessly, as if the world and the body were pulsing in the same rhythm.
This is the state of fruition, or what we call Zone 2:
a territory where doing and being become indistinguishable.

Between Effort and Flow

Most of the time, we live in Zone 1 —
a state of action driven by tension, goals, and rewards.
Here, the body and mind are under the command of dopamine:
the energy that fuels the wanting to do, the seeking of results, the achievement of objectives.

But this system — dependent on the expectation of reward — has limits.
When dopamine is depleted and the sense of meaning fades,
fatigue, apathy, or automatism appear.
Zone 1 is the place of productivity, but not of wholeness.

Zone 2, by contrast, is the space of pure doing.
Here, the mTOR system — the metabolic regulator of goal-oriented action —
switches off, and the body begins to operate in slow, synchronized modes.
Brain rhythms decelerate, energy use becomes evenly distributed,
and the individual no longer acts from motivation, but from integration.

Temporal Dilation and the Synchronized Body

When mTOR turns off, the body enters a state of expanded homeostasis.
Time seems to lengthen, and what was once intentional action
becomes spontaneous movement.
Breathing adjusts naturally to the environment,
gestures become precise without calculation,
and perception expands as if the body itself were part of space.

Fruition is that moment when consciousness is not ahead of the body,
but within it — following every micro-adjustment, every sensation.
It is the Damasian Mind in full harmony between interoception (what comes from within)
and proprioception (what moves outside).

When these two dimensions vibrate in phase,
the body experiences total synchronicity —
a feeling of unity with the environment,
where psychological time disappears and only the now remains.

Doing That Becomes Being

In Zone 2, doing has no external goal.
It happens because the body is metabolically ready for movement.
Doing becomes the very act of feeling alive.

Here, the concept of Yãy Hã Miy reaches its full expression:
imitating, practicing, repeating, believing —
until the gesture becomes neural faith, and faith becomes spontaneous action.
In this state, the individual does not act through effort —
they act because the body is the act itself.

Spirituality manifests not as external belief,
but as bioelectrical synchrony between body and environment.
It is what many Indigenous peoples recognized as sacred doing:
acting without separation, in full reciprocity with the world.

The electrical synapse, with its signals flowing both ways,
is both metaphor and material expression of this spirituality:

to touch and be touched,
to move and be moved,
to create and be created.

In fruition, the body does not act upon the world,
but with it —
in a continuous dialogue between energy, matter, and perception.

The Neurophysiology of Fruition

In Zone 2, a metabolic reorganization occurs:
prefrontal dominance decreases,
and sensory-motor, rhythmic, and perceptual networks take precedence.
It is the body — not thought — that leads consciousness.

This state can be physiologically identified through:

• an increase in CO₂ from 40 to 45 mmHg;
  
  

• SpO₂ levels between 92–94%;
  
  

• balanced activation of both sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
  
  

At that point, the mind enters a state of fruition —
a field where feeling, perceiving, and doing converge.

Fruition, Spirituality, and Belonging

To live in fruition is to be metabolically in belonging.
There is no fear, no urgency — only presence.
Doing is no longer a means but an end.
Action requires no validation; it is self-referential —
a direct expression of the body in harmony with the Earth.

The individual in Zone 2 neither competes nor compares.
They participate.
Spirituality here is pure physiology —
the bioelectrical dance of neurons, glia, blood, and environment.
It is the experience of being part of the whole,
without losing the uniqueness of one’s own metabolism.

Final Synthesis

Fruition is the summit of the Extended Yãy Hã Miy:
neural faith transformed into embodied gesture.
It is doing without seeking reward,
because doing is already being.

In Zone 2, consciousness rests in the body.
The body, in turn, breathes the world.
And the world responds —
as if every atom recognized the movement from which it came.

References (Post-2020)

• Northoff, G. (2022). The spontaneous brain: From mind–body to the world–brain relation. Frontiers in Psychology.
  
  

• Simor, P. et al. (2023). Metastable brain states and consciousness. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
  
  

• Berntson, G. G., & Khalsa, S. S. (2021). Neural circuits of interoception. Trends in Neurosciences.
  
  

• Pereira Jr., A. (2021). Triple-Aspect Monism and the unity of mind and body. Philosophies.
  
  

• Damasio, A. (2021). Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious.
  
  

• Barrett, L. F. (2020). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Updated ed.).