Slow Down

In our rush to get so much done,
we forget a minor detail:
this now
right now
is our Life.

One of the sweetest and best ways to
return to now
and our life
is to slow down.

If you've already done Feldenkrais you realize how important this is:

If you don't SLOW DOWN,
you are going to be stuck
in always doing something the way
you always did.

THE BRAIN / SELF CANNOT LEARN
IF WE ARE DOING THINGS FAST,
OR EVEN AT THE
HABITUAL RATE.
(that's the word the keeps
us same old same old:
HABITUAL.)

Habit means
that the action,
like tying our shoes,
has gone on
"automatic,"
which is fine for lots of things,
who wants to re-learn shoe tying
or tooth brushing each day.

But to learn
and hence become more than
what we are now,
we MUST
SLOW DOWN.

Think about doing a rush job
of
learning to
TIE YOUR SHOES with the
opposite string first, in
opposite top down positioning,
and you'll realize it's impossible.

And yet,
when someone gets a system,
that is super powerful,
such as the Feldenkrais Method,
or the Byron Katie Work,
or my evolving
Wake Up Feldenkrais Work,
a system that fascilitates transformation,
(not just remediation)
by slowing us down,
and allowing,
that is ALLOWING US,
TO BE NON-HABITUAL,
the tendency is to rush through,
do it the old ways,
get it over,
feel secure,
and learn nothing.

That feels familiar
and even "comfortable,"
though often this is a miserable sort of "comfort,"
but it is the known.

See today's essay at SlowSonoma.Com
on learning and knowing.
On how,
if we already know it all, we don't need
to learn anything
and can
stay the same.

Alas the age old problem:
we say we want to change
the hell we are in,
but darned if we are willing
to change anything about ourselves
to help this take place.

We want to change
without changing,
and this often means:
rushing through something.

or
( a big favorite, stay the same strategy)
BEING TOO BUSY,
TO HAVE A CHUNK OF TIME
TO COMMIT TO DOING
SOMETHING NEW,
IN A NEW,
AND SLOW
AND TRANSFORMATIVE WAY).

So:
if you are doing yoga
or Feldenkrais
or Desk Trainer:

GIVE YOURSELF 10-40 MINUTES A DAY,
slow down,
breathe,
expand awareness,
do the work with
DELIGHT,
AWARENESS,
JOY,
DISCOVERY,
PLAYFULNESS,
AND NO AGGENDA TO "GET IT RIGHT."

Make awareness the core of what you are doing.

Do the thing twice
do the Desk Trainer twice
do the yoga pose twice
do the Feldenkrais movement "many times."

Slow down
it's okay to feel delicious
it's okay to learn
it's okay to allow the brain a chance to learn
it's okay to allow the new and vital
and real
and enlightened
in you
to have a chance to wiggle up to the light,
and
Shine.

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PLEASE BE WELL:


Pleasure
Ease
Awareness
Sensitive Strength
Enlightenment

BE

Waking up to now.
Embracing Change.
Learning to learn.
Loving to move, improve and transform.