there are parts of my process or my practice or w/e you wanna call it that are actually pretty important but idk how to talk about them. one is a move that is like “allowing the body to do what it wants” and that’s where all the shaking and hyperventilating come from
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Interesting. I used to use it in my process as well, but I felt a bit uncertain if I wasn't "making things up". Especially since the movements were repeating a lot.
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i don’t think repeating is necessarily bad but hard to say. sometimes i think the process can get stuck because the really truly desired movement is outside of your awareness
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i def get what you mean about the “making things up” but i’ve come around to being like, movements don’t really have truth values, it’s fine, i can just mess around and do a weird little dance for no reason that doesn’t have to mean anything in particular
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Hmmm, interesting. I revisited the practice today and realized some things. One is that I used to approach it as "trying to get something out of my system", hoping that after I allow the movements and will "go through the whole natural sequence", they will go away.
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But they never did, so I went on to some other practices. Now after a lot of different work it seemed natural to me to approach this allowing as a way to get to know myself better. This seems to be way more productive.
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Now that I think about it, this change of perspective might have something to do with your reframing from releasing to allowing! It's like releasing something so it flies away vs allowing something to be so it can be known.
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aw that's poetic
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