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Detect the patterns driving your behaviour. Understand the personas running your life. Act from awareness, not automatism.
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8 questions drawn from a pool of 20 — a fresh set each time you retake it.
Every habit that controls you has three parts — a trigger, an automatic reaction, and a hidden reward. Seeing all three is the first act of freedom.
How automatically and quickly do you react to triggers? Select all that feel familiar:
Which of these drain your energy most? Select all that apply:
What sets this habit in motion?
Select all that apply — triggers can be layered
What do you automatically do when the trigger appears?
Why does this pattern keep repeating? What does it give you — even if harmful?
What do you automatically do when the trigger appears? Select all that apply:
Give this habit a clear, honest name
Naming it is the first antigravity act — you can only resist what you can see
Based on your habit profile, these are the practices most likely to reduce its gravitational pull
Each one you name reduces its power over you
Select your 3 top gravitational habits to focus on.
Not a diary — a consciousness practice. Separate yourself from the trigger.
The moment you stop and observe is the moment gravity loses its hold.
Write down what you notice right now — without judgment. Observation is the first antigravity act.
Select your top gravitational habits and build a step-by-step orbit strategy for each.
Your orbit — neither falling to Earth nor drifting into the void.
Antigravity is not only a psychological practice — every great spiritual tradition has described the same journey in a different language.
"The physics metaphor is not merely decorative. When I studied Newton's law of gravitation alongside the great spiritual traditions of humanity, I found they were all describing the same reality — one in the language of science, others in the language of surrender, liberation, wisdom, and virtue."
— Shadi Obeidat, Antigravity
Each tradition below is given equal space and equal weight. The gravity metaphor speaks every language.
In Arabic, Islam means surrender — the removal of all false identifications and attachments. This is precisely what the antigravity framework describes: releasing psychological mass by letting go of what the environment has built around your true self.
The five daily prayers (Salah) are structured interruptions — five times each day, gravity is paused. The body stops, the mind redirects, and for a moment, the automatism breaks. This is the most ancient and consistent Random Gravity Check ever designed.
Dhikr — the remembrance of God — functions as the Observer Practice. The repeated return to awareness of something greater than the habitual self is, in psychological terms, the strengthening of the witness. Tawakkul (trust in God) is the ultimate surrender of psychological mass.
The Buddha's teaching begins with the recognition of dukkha — the unsatisfactoriness of clinging to impermanent things. This is the gravitational force precisely described: attachment increases psychological mass, and mass increases suffering.
The path to liberation is through non-attachment (upadana): not suppressing desires but seeing through them, observing them without being absorbed. The mindfulness practices of Buddhism — sati and vipassana — are direct antigravity technologies: they train the observer to watch thoughts, emotions and sensations without identification.
The Middle Way itself is the orbit: neither falling to indulgence (Earth) nor drifting into aversion (void). The moon's path is the Buddhist path.
St Paul described the gravitational experience with striking precision: "For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing." This is the habit loop in its purest form: automatic patterns overriding conscious intention.
Kenosis — the emptying of the self — is the Christian word for reducing psychological mass. The deliberate release of pride, self-will, and ego-driven patterns creates space for the true self to emerge. Prayer, fasting, and the examination of conscience function as structured antigravity tools: interrupting patterns, increasing self-observation, and reducing ego identification.
Metanoia — usually translated as repentance but more precisely meaning a complete reorientation of mind — is the antigravity transformation: a full turning away from habitual patterns toward a higher centre of gravity.
The Stoics made the most direct parallel to the gravity framework. Epictetus taught that everything is divided into two categories: what is within our power (our thoughts, judgments, desires) and what is not (the external environment, other people, events). Confusing the two is the root of all suffering — and the exact mechanism of gravitational absorption.
Prosoche — the practice of continuous self-attention — is the Stoic Observer practice. Marcus Aurelius practised it through daily journaling: "You have power over your mind, not outside events." Memento Mori (remember you will die) increases distance from environmental triggers by placing daily concerns in perspective.
The Stoic sage is not someone without emotions but someone with maximum distance from triggers — able to feel without being absorbed, to observe without being identified.
Hindu philosophy uses the concept of samskaras — deep mental impressions formed by repeated thoughts, emotions, and actions — to describe exactly what the antigravity framework calls psychological mass. Every repeated pattern carves a groove in consciousness; the more it is repeated, the deeper the groove, the stronger the gravitational pull.
Moksha — liberation — is the goal: freedom from the accumulated samskaras that bind a person to automatic, mechanical existence. The practices of yoga, meditation, and viveka (discrimination between the real and unreal) are antigravity technologies: they train awareness to observe the samskaras without being swept away by them.
The concept of the witness consciousness (Sakshi) — the unchanging observer behind all mental and emotional activity — is the Hindu name for what ORBIT calls the true self.
The Tao Te Ching teaches wu wei — effortless action, or action in harmony with the natural flow of things. This is the state of stable orbit: not fighting reality with reactive habits, not collapsing into passive drift, but moving in accordance with one's true nature.
Pu (the uncarved block) represents the original self before environmental conditioning created psychological mass. Taoist practice is the gradual return to this natural state — releasing the layers of habit, expectation, and social conditioning that have accumulated over a lifetime.
The central metaphor of water — yielding, soft, yet wearing away the hardest stone — maps directly to the antigravity approach: not forceful resistance to habits, but patient, consistent, gentle observation that gradually erodes their gravitational pull.
A simple guide to help you get the most from every screen
ORBIT is a daily practice app based on the book Antigravity by Shadi Obeidat. Just as the moon orbits the Earth — neither falling nor drifting — your true self can find a stable balance between being absorbed by your environment and losing yourself completely.
ORBIT helps you identify the habits pulling you down, design small actions to resist them, and build the daily awareness that creates lasting change.
Gravity pulls you toward unconscious, habitual behaviour. Antigravity is the conscious opposite force. Here is what that looks like in everyday life:
Notice: the antigravity is never the extreme opposite — it is the conscious balance. The orbit between two poles.
Every great orbit starts with a single conscious decision.
One step from beginning your orbit.