We get so caught up in our IDEAS of things, don’t we?
And those ideas then get caught up with other people’s ideas and pretty soon we are in knots over things that seem like they should be pretty simple.
Movement, for example.
Instead of just trusting ourselves to move in ways that bring us joy and pleasure and growth and change and all the things we really want from movement, we start to explore a particular path.
Then we get caught up in doing it “right.”
Then we self identify with the culture of the path.
Let’s take, for example, yoga — the very thing that is meant to bring us freedom and an understanding of ourselves that is infinite. Over time, over repetitions, it ends up concretizing us in our bodies and our minds. It can take a long time — if ever — to be able to see that this is what has happened.
Maybe then we move to “primal movement,” but again, instead of trusting ourselves, we seek a “program” and even in this concept called “primal,” we find ourselves learning patterns and repeating patterns and wondering when we’ll get to the “advanced” patterns.
When the most “advanced” pattern is the capacity to follow no pattern.
There is nothing wrong with studying different paths and with different teachers as long as we don’t get STUCK.
Find a teacher who is the geekiest student you’ve ever met.
Find a teacher who is there to light your curiosity on fire.
Find a teacher who is never ever finished.
Find a culture of no culture, one that is always expanding.
Find a group of humans who don’t believe in hierarchies of any kind.
Be brave.
Stop following. Stop patterning.
Question. Experiment. Play.