#transformative practice

Rhythmically so, like much of life, sometimes we’re in flow and other times not. Today has been a long day and I find that tonight I struggled to focus through my short goal, and the stretch goal... is not going to happen. Rather than fight it, or judge it, I allow it to be what it is.

I’m guessing not everything you read, if even from a source you trust. Skepticism is the ingredient to make the mind work for it’s own answer.  I say... that is a good thing!

There are those with whom we can share with unflinching abandon. In others cases we must learn to practice discretionary expression without shutting ourselves down.

I’m learning that an editing practice has it’s own layers. The process has to attend to both the nuts and bolts of grammar and punctuation, and the reworking of ideas. The former is “easier” in that you accept the change or not. The latter requires reconsideration of the content in the way in which you want to present it.

Have you ever seen someone’s comfort zone shrink so drastically that they almost never leave the house? On the continuum of “being careful”, their fears take over, dimming their beautiful spirit, which seems to wither before your eyes like a flower in the dark.

Taking a tumble is a universal fear - for those of us who were not taught how to fall properly. Using athletics as a physical model, practice allows us to develop skill, overcome fear, and feel comfortable in the process. Translate this to metaphysics and imagine surrendering struggle with grace, falling in love, tripping over some words...

In this section I reframe & attempt to surrender the judgement we can often feel when not able to decide.  Snippet from a poem of mine to start the theme: “...the crossroads appear and beckon in the dark, I choose to stand until the light dawns and say ENOUGH“

Each of the sections within chapters has their own “big idea” to convey. Reviewing them helps galvanize the concepts around these central themes.