Moves

your consciousness is a playground and there are all kinds of moves to make, games to play, joys and lessons and discoveries to explore

Moves

  • laying it all out on the table: acknowledging everything that’s on your heart and mind, possibly labeling it, possibly giving it a spatial location to return to if you so choose. or simply feeling the peace that comes with having a complete set of the things
  • dropping a question into the stream: rediscovered inquiry for myself in my own time and way. asking the question in one’s mind, watching experience and one’s bodymind for an answer without expecting anything. allowing nonconceptual responses and internal dialogue from multiple aspects of self
  • mirroring: facing someone, looking in their eyes, putting your awareness into their body, like you are looking in a mirror but feeling your own body, seeing it flipped
  • going over there: placing your awareness in a specific location in space
  • going everywhere: placing your awareness in all of space
  • going everywhere (but the head): placing your awareness in all of space (except your head, where auditory thoughts and visual images arise and pass away)
  • feeling the upwards trickle through the limbs: if your feet are planted on the ground and you stay still and bend your knees you can attune to energy coming up and down your limbs
  • “I know”: you just look at yourself square in the soul, taking in the complexity of everything you’re feeling, and you whisper, nod to yourself, sweetly and quietly: “I know… I know my love”
  • running a message up the flag pole: taking the time to articulate a nonconceptual thought in words as best one can, even though it is relatively slow and painful, like snail mail
  • echoing: as someone speaks to you, repeat their words in your mind
  • reframing as opportunity: notice that a problem can also be seen as an opportunity
    • e.g.
      • making mistakes is an opportunity to prove that i love myself
    • or even any situation, not necessarily a problem. writing this thread is an opportunity to explain myself, or it could be an opportunity to practice being okay with being misunderstood, or…
  • sensing which stories are in play: what stories, if any (there probably are some), are you telling subconsciously? look around, internally, and make them explicit by voicing them or writing them down.
  • head/body flip: notice you’re in your head, and then feel your body instead
  • checking the delta between story and reality: notice what your story about a situation is, and check the outside view on what’s happening
    • e.g. i feel very afraid, but i notice i am objectively safe, no one is hurting me physically, i have food + water and can easily take personal space if i need it, i am loved + have many friends….
  • transposing context: someone is telling you a story about their life. you’re not them, you haven’t had their life experiences. but maybe you have had an experience kind of like it. you recall (or imagine) it – remember what it felt like, and then apply that feeling tone to what they’re sharing
  • decide not to worry about:
  • just don’t feed it:
    • notice there’s a pattern
    • notice it’s unhelpful / is causing suffering
    • notice when the pattern is arising
    • if it is a thought, drop/cut off that thought
    • if it is a speech act, do not say it
    • if it is a bodily action, do not do it
  • listening to everyone: listening to every possible voice in your head, without needing to do anything, just listening
  • reflecting context: making explicit implicit context by verbalizing it to oneself internally (and sharing it out loud or in writing with others if useful, beneficial)
  • turn the dial: imagine there’s a dial with a knob that controls one aspect of your experience—humor, playfulness, spontaneity, attractiveness, presence, etc. imagine adjusting the dial up or down, and see how that affects your experience. How would you show up if you were two degrees more funny in a situation, or more present?
  • radiating love

“connecting them creates additional wealth”!