A Life Of
Practice
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A Life Of
Practice
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A Life Of Practice
...Is it a desert? Or is it a garden of ecstasy?
Practice builds Matrix in your Being to hold more consciousness.
No one can practice for you.
No one can stop you from practicing.
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 - and in the context of the StartOver.xyz game - the term 'evolution' is defined 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 Build 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 does not guarantee more consciousness. Matrix is simply the base upon which consciousness can potentially grow.
There is maximum speed at which our Being tolerates the building of more Matrix, which is rather slow and random. The good news is that we human beings can take Radical Responsibility for building Matrix in our Being faster than the ordinary speed of evolution.
Some of us have made building Matrix into a hobby! While some people gather on weekends to watch football games or knit sweaters, we meet in Possibility Teams or S.P.A.R.K. Experiment Teams to go through transformational Liquid States.
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 Being, using Emotions as gateways for healing things , 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.
Initiatory processes are the content of the Possibility Labs and Possibility Coaching sessions and they are astonishingly life-changing experiences... when 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 their 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?
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 Starts With A Shift Of Identity
You might have heard the story that a context of Evolution 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. You might have even believed in such story for a while.
Context of Evolution, such as Possibility Management, are based on a radically different contexts than the culture most of us grew up in. Meeting such contexts 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?
PRACTICE ASKING THE NEXT QUESTION
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 in your life other than the Linear Life Plan arranged by modern culture.
By asking, "What is there to practice?" you call into your space archetypal Bright Principles, 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!
Ask the next question.
REMEMBER TO PRACTICE YOUR RAGE by Millicent Haughey
Don’t forget your keys,
have you got your bag?
Did you pack your lunch?
and is the oven turned off?
Is the dog feed and the washing in? Did you remember to wish her happy birthday?
Are the plants watered?
And do you have your phone charger?
AND, Did you practise your rage?
At first you will hate me.
You will cry when you are suppose to be raging
you might freeze
and remember everything,
except to practise your rage
the excuses will run like confetti through the air,
what about the kids.. the cat hates it.. what will neighbours think..
i’m tired.
I had no time
my head hurts and my throat sounds weird
and none of my rage towels are clean
it is too late
it is too early
I swear it counts if I just get annoyed sitting in my car as the traffic cuts in front of me
Surely it counts to yell at my partner, “to sort their shit out!”
I’m hungry
I need to rest
Yes. It is all true
AND. IT. IS. ALL. BULLSHIT.
Remember to practise your rage, because no one is practising it for you,
In time the energetic capacity of your skeleton will increase,
Your anger muscle will sharpen,
Your rage practise will become your familiar training ground,
just you,
Anger and a freedom only found by showing up,
at your internal dojo, namaste, teacher rage, I am here, show me.
You will stand taller
Speak clearer
Stay longer when the feelings run hot.
Stay longer when the searing knife of Love touches your human heart.
Your body will hold more of you
And,
Under those ten thousand Nos you never said,
you will find that within you,
you have an authentic Yes.
May you find it,
the taste so sweet,
that resounds in every cell,
resonating like a note
through your whole being.
Yes. That.
No one can stop you.
And,
Your future self thanks you,
for showing up to practise your Rage.
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,
A short text by Anne-Chloé Destremau.
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 practiced the Butterfly Stroke 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 went to competitions on the weekends. I would have one month break in the summer.
10 kilometers twice a day for 6 days per week 50 weeks per for 5 years.
This alone equates to 30,000 kilometers.
I swam far more than 30,000 kilometers.
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, each day to become what you can be?
You can simply delete the absolutely specious notion that you were born professional in being a human being.
You were born with temporary amnesia about how to be one: how to create authentic human relationships, how to be authentically yourself, how to connect with Earth and the Infinite Resources.
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 you start over?
What if you start with the story about yourself that you have no idea how to be a human being? What would we be your daily practice?
What would you place at the center of your 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
DECIDE WHEN YOU ARE PRACTICING AND WHEN NOT
Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.01
What happens if you decide to never stop practicing?
To know when you are not practicing is such a wonderful way to learn what it means to practice. Have you ever done coloring in by coloring the background of the drawing and leaving the inside the lines uncoloured? Do you notice that this is one way to bring the distinction of the shape of the drawing regardless?
This experiment is exactly that. To start Noticing what practicing is NOT so as to train yourself to have the Distinction of what practice is.
For this experiment you will need three balls and a timer and a whole day.
1. Set an alarm to go off every hour for the entire time that you are awake.
2. When the alarm goes off, Center, ground and bubble yourself (if you do not know how to do that, follow these links).
3. Start the timer for 3 minutes, start practicing juggling the three balls. Focus your Attention on juggling the three balls for 3 minutes.
4. Notice what is happening in your 5 bodies while you are practicing.
5. When 3 minutes is up, stop practicing, put your 3 balls away and carry on with your day.
6. Notice what happens in your 5 bodies when you stop practicing.
7. When the alarm goes off the next hour, again set your timer, take out your 3 balls and start practicing.
8. Do this for the rest of the day.
9. At the end of the day write down in your Beep!Book 5 things you noticed in your 5 bodies while you are practicing and 5 things you noticed happening in your 5 bodies when you are not practicing.
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.01 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. Write one thing you noticed in the Proof field. This experiment is worth 2 Matrix Points.
SET UP A POSSIBILITY TEAM WITH A WEEKLY PRACTICE CHECK-IN
Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.02
- Call together a Possibility Team, join one that is already running or go to the one you are part of.
- Meet every week for at least 1.5 hours.
- During each meeting dedicate at least 30 minutes to pure practice.
- Split the practice time up into 10 minute time slots.
- Each person chooses one skill that they will practice for 10 minutes, the practice could be with others on their own or in a three cell.
- After the skill has been practiced check in about the practice. Share one or two things you noticed about your practice.
- Do this for at least 4 months
After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.02 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. Write one thing you practiced in the Proof field. This experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.
PRACTICE THE 7 CORE SKILLS TO ABSURD LEVELS OF EFFECTIVENESS
Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.07
In Possibility Management we have distilled 7 Core Skills that any person would need to some degree of competence in order to transform or reinvent what is possible in any moment in any space. In other words, you need these skills to be a Possibilitator.
PRACTICE THE 13 TOOLS TO ABSURD LEVELS OF EFFECTIVENESS
Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.08
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.
PRACTICE PRACTICING TO ABSURD LEVELS OF EFFECTIVENESS
Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.09
Cavitate and Hold Space for a weekly EHP Dojo (Emotional Healing Process) either online of in person. Cavitate the Space with the Context of Samurai levels of practice regarding people's clothing, speech, attitude, behavior, messiness, quality of efforts made, quality of questions asked, quality of attention paid, quality of listening in the space, quality of instructions given, quality of timing, etc. Make it real. Keep deepening the Context around Practicing Practice. What does this mean in terms of Accountability and Integrity?
PRACTICE BEING A 'WORK IN PROGRESS' IN YOUR DAILY LIFE
Matrix Code LIFEPRAC.10
Get okay with being an Experimenter and Experimenting in your daily life. Get okay with not being perfect or getting it right the first time, or even the third time. Practice each day using Do-Overs to reveal new levels of vulnerability. Practicing Pulling The Rug out from under yourself. Practice revealing the Memetic Constructs you imprison yourself inside of, and practicing opening the door of the prison and stepping one or two steps outside, in public, so people can see how fresh you are.
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