A New Kind of Relationship
Working with myself, for myself, has felt like the closest thing to self-care in a while.
On practice
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The Art of Craft
Crafting anything—everything—takes time. It takes brainstorming (vision). It takes planning (direction). It takes doing (action and execution). Eventually, it takes reflecting and making changes (revision).
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Change is a Spiral
Change is a non-linear path, one that may not lead us where we think it will. All change begins as mindset work. The more I listen to methods for behavioral change, the more apparent this becomes.
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Fixing What We Can See
We can sometimes get swallowed up in “fixing” the things we can see: how our bodies look and how we can use them to perform. Even if you’re a professional athlete, taking care of your mental and emotional health is paramount to your success and happiness in life. Being physically gifted only gets you so far.
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Practice for Practice’s Sake
I’ve always thought that practice was all about repetition in order to perform better. In other words, the goal of practice was to work on your weaknesses and eliminate them.
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Courage by Association
Bayles and Orland's “Art and Fear” suggests that what artists learn from other artists is not just history and technique.
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Permission to Meditate
I’ve heard meditation compared to juggling: you have to try not to try. Once you start trying and thinking about how to juggle or how you’re doing, the balls will fall right out of the air.
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Forgiveness
The art of forgiveness is not one I’ve practiced much… and I do believe that it is an art: It requires talent, or in the absence of talent, the hard work and time of deliberate practice.
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Starting Anew
Rob and I started YogaGlo’s “Foundations of Flow” program, led by Jason Crandell, and for the first time, I believe that practicing yoga is finally going to “stick.” One of the crucial things for me has been shifting my focus from coming to the practice to achieve to coming to the practice to learn.
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