The magic practice
· · #alignment
Even I'm surprised.
At first, "the practice" was something I'd set up between me and myself, to get past a block.
Then, while coaching an artist who'd gotten stuck, I suggested she set up a kind of practice – without calling it that.
Then I started suggesting it more and more often to some of my clients.
It transformed the lives of everyone who did it.
In short, the practice means giving yourself ten minutes a day to act in complete freedom. The founding principle is "required results, free means": you make a contract with yourself about certain aspects of what you want to produce or do, then give yourself total freedom in how you fulfill it.
Discipline becomes a tool for exploration. The breakthroughs come when you no longer feel like it, when the routine stops working and, to honor the contract, you have to rely on whatever comes, on what's easy, on what wasn't planned.
You discover who you are.
Since then, I've identified several kinds of practice:
- spiritual practice: no result, make nothing. Be, observe, contemplate.
- creative practice: make something in a limited time and share it.
- physical practice: move and feel your body, connect sensation and movement.
- social practice: meet, engage, listen, express yourself, with no goal at all.
- professional practice: bring value, help, assist, unblock.
PS: vacation, then I got sick. The videos and notes will pick back up little by little.