A Life Of Practice
...is it a desert? or a garden of paradise?
Practice builds matrix in your Being to hold more consciousness.
No one can practice for you.
No one can stop you from practicing.
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To Process vs. To Practice
If you look around, you can find evidence to support the story that the purpose of the Universe is Evolution. In Possibility Management, the context of the StartOver game, Evolution is used in a specific way: as the Evolution of Consciousness in human beings, in other words, Conscious Evolution. Human beings can hold more Consciousness after they built more matrix in their Energetic Body - guess why the StartOver game is all about matrix points! The more matrix you build, the more Consciousness you can hold. And! More matrix doesn't guarantee more consciousness, but it is the base upon which it can grow.
There is an ordinary speed at which our energetic body builds matrix, which is rather slow and random. The good news is that we human being can take responsibility for building matrix in our energetic body faster than the ordinary speed of evolution. Some of us have made it into a hobby! When some people gather on weekends to watch football games or knit sweaters, we meet in Possibility Teams to go through transformation processes.
The ways Consciousness can be Consciously Evolved can be distinguished into two main categories: the processes and the practices. The processes are Authentic Adulthood Initiations, Expanding the Box, Upgrading Thoughtware, adding new Distinctions into the Energetic Body, using Emotions as gateways to finding old Decisions and making new Decisions, Stellating Feelings to the Archetypal levels of intensity to turn on inner Feelings Archetypes and so on. The practices are ways of integrating the processes and building matrix so our energetic body can 'hold' the process in our consciousness.
These initiatory processes are the content of the Possibility Lab and Expand the Box trainings, and Possibility Coaching sessions and they are astonishingly life-changing experiences... only if put into practice. A process without a solid practice to integrate it in daily life will not be held by the 5 bodies.
Making new decisions or discovering new distinctions without applying them as new options in your life is much like New Year's resolutions. You are fooling yourself.
Many people have had the experience that it is really the practice that changes your life because Conscious Evolution is about using the new skills that you have learned in your everyday life to create different results. Otherwise, what's the point?
Practice Starts With A Shift Of Identity
I have heard the story that Possibility Management can be too hard and puts too much pressure on people to evolve faster and faster, that there are too many practices that could be taken on and it can be overwhelming.
Possibility Management is based on a radically different context than the culture most of us grew up in. Meeting Possibility Management context can be like meeting an alien culture. So yes it is a lot of new distinctions, behaviors, traditions and practices.
Carrying a life of practice is living a life of experimenting. It means shifting into a new identity. The new identity is becoming an experimenter.
Carrying a life of practice demands that you do not give a shit if other people are practicing, what others are practicing, or what is customary or what the rules are. It is about being an experimenter and caring about the result of your experiment. It is not practicing because someone told you that it will change something, or it's good, or you'll be enlightened. It is practicing because you see the different results that your practice creates in your life.
Practicing because it is customary or tradition to have this practice in that culture is giving your center away to that culture and to its traditions. Then you are a victim in a Low Drama.
To have a life of practice that is your life, you have to be an asshole experimenter. You have to be the one who wants to experiment because it gives you different results than what you had before.
Feeling the pressure of the practice is Gremlin food, is blaming the context for the practice it offers you. Yes, some practices have been shown over and over again to change people's life. So what? Do it not because it changes other people's life. Do it because it changes your life. If it doesn't work, find another experiment. Create your own experiment. Possibility Management was created and is still being created because some people have tried things, some work, some didn't work and they wrote down everything so they can keep doing what worked and stop doing what didn't work. Find out what is your next experiment. What is your next experiment with your Box, your Gremlin, your Being and your Archetypal lineage. All of them need and want different experiments, figure out what they are.
What Is There To Practice?
Asking yourself this simple question, "What is there to practice?" opens a doorway to a life-direction change.
Why is that? Because this question starts a meta-conversation about your life.
A 'meta-conversation' is 'a conversation about the conversation', in this case, a conversation about what else is possible for you other than the Linear Life Plan arranged by modern culture.
By asking, "What is there to practice?" you call into your space archetypal Bright Principle forces of nature such as Diligence, Persistence, Acceptance, Forgiveness, Empowerment, Nonlinearity, Determination, Transformation, Evolution, Elegance, Commitment, Precision, High Level Fun, and Practice. This is a mighty powerful punch created by one small question!
Practice Practicing
...practicing how to practice = practicing practicing!
Before jumping into practice using your standard strategy of figuring out everything in advance with your mind so that you think you understand it all and it seems comprehensible and safe to you... or the other end of the Thinking Gorilla perspective... jumping in with Brute Force and Massive Ignorance (the BFMI technique) flinging mud and logs at it until it surrenders crushed at your feet... let us consider the possibility of practicing how to practice.
The above two methods of practice, though perhaps familiar, use only two of your 5 Bodies, your Intellectual Body and your Physical Body. But you have 3 more bodies to practice with, and they are perhaps the bodies needing the most practice.
How can you get the intelligence and energy of your Emotional, Energetic, and Archetypal Bodies coordinated and activated in your efforts to practice?
On What It Takes to Be a Professional
I used to be a professional swimmer.
I learned to swim at age 8. Doing laps in the public pool in Nouméa, New Caledonia pretending to be a mermaid. I didn't tell anybody that I was being a mermaid. I would go back and forth in the small pool undulating and holding my breath.
I moved back to France and entered the professional Swimming Team at the Stade Poitevin Natation in Poitiers.
I became so proficient in undulation that my speciality quickly became the butterfly stroke. If you don’t know anything about swimming, that is the stroke in which you undulate the most. I had practice for 2 years straight without even knowing it. I thought I might just become a mermaid if I undulated and held my breath enough.
I swam for almost 10 years until I was 17 years old. During the last 5 years, I swam twice a day 6 days a week, three times a day during the school holidays and competition on the weekends. I would have one month break in the summer.
That is what it takes to be a professional swimmer.
You want to be a professional lover?
You want to be a professional parent?
You want to be a professional relationship creator?
You want to be a professional gameworld builder?
You want to be a professional trainer?
You want to be a professional guardian?
Are you training 4 to 6 hours a day, every day to become one?
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that we were born professional in being a human being. We are born with temporary amnesia of how to be one: how to create authentic human relationships, how to be authentically ourselves and be connected with Earth.
Where did we get the idea that we have ever been proficient in those domains? Because our parents and grandparents had a job, gave birth to children and provided food on the table? There is no proof of the capacity of being an authentic conscious human being in those characteristics. These are merely proof of surviving tricks.
What if we started over?
What if we started with the story about ourselves that we have no idea how to be a human being? What would we be our daily practice?
What would we place at the center of our life?
How to live Life fully maybe?
What else would be more important?
Having more money, having enough money?
Having a better job?
What would you do with more money and a better job if you have no idea what you want, what makes you alive, why you decided to come as a human being on Earth?
Experiments For Practicing Practicing
Practice The 7 Core Skills
In Possibility Management we have distilled 7 Core Skills that any person would need some degree of competence in, in order to transform or reinvent what is possible in any moment in any space. To further explore and begin practicing these 7 Core Skills we invite you to jump over to the website 7coreskills.mystrikingly.com. Best of luck to you!
What If It Works...?
What if you practice avoiding Low Drama by asking your Gremlin to detect other people's Gremlins and it works?
What if you keep your Center and stop being adaptive and giving your authority away and instead you build a Team of collaborators to create new gameworlds that make the existing gameworlds irrelevant?
What if you use your Real Voice and adult feelings to create clarity, make decisions, ask for what you want, and to negotiate 5 Body intimacies and it works, and you start having more ecstasy in your life than your Box is accustomed to?
By now you might start thinking that one answer would be to keep practicing...
Practice The 13 Tools
Each person, regardless of their culture or times, is born with an energetic toolbelt full of energetic tools to use with your Energetic Body as you get more and more initiated into authentic adulthood. If you never heard of the 13 Tools on your Energetic Toolbelt, that does not mean they are not there waiting for you to use them.
This would be like when the giant hurricane smashed the Fiji and Tonga Island chains into smithereens, wiping out the Casava crop on both islands. Within a month the Fijians were starving to death but the Tongans were getting along just fine.
Finally a Fijian who is visiting the Tongan Islands notices the difference and says, "Hey! How come you are not all starving to death from lack of Casava like we are over in Fiji?"
"Ahhh," says the Tongan. "That is simple to answer. We eat Taro!"
"What is Taro?" asks the Fijian.
"That stuff over there with the big leaves," says the Tongan.
"But that is just a weed!" says the Fijian.
"Call it what you want," says the Tongan, "but if it is a weed, then it is a very delicious and nutritious weed!"
The Fijian immediate sails back to Fiji and shows his people how to prepare and eat the abundant Taro plants that were growing around them all the time they were starving to death, and they all live happily ever after!
The lesson of the story is, you may have an incredibly useful toolbelt with 13 Tools hanging on it ready for you to use in your daily life, but if you do not know they are there and do not use them... whose fault is it?
You might want to slide sideways over to 13tools.mystrikingly.com and get really good at using them.