Week 6: Transformation

Welcome to The Receptive Mind course WEEK 6: 'Transformation'

This final week we combine practises of previous weeks to explore our habits.

This week you will choose a habit that is not serving you. What happens when you are procrastinating for example? You describe your habit in one sentence and will work with that throughout the session. Please have a pen and paper ready to follow along or download the question form 'Question The Receptive Mind' in the link above.

Info: Chronic states of being and habits are embedded in our posture, established through learned and repeated emotional patterns in life. Most habitual patterns start at a very young age as the family, society and direct surrounding are of influence. As soon as you allow yourself to read into your direct felt sense experience and leave judgement at the door, you enable yourself to step back and observe your own pre-set reactions and physical go to's or habits. The more you step away from any preconceived ideas and simply observe your bias, the more clearly you become aware of a structure underneath your reactions that reveals how and where patterns are embedded in your body and mind. Disconnect stories from the feelings that come up from the stories to observe your feelings directly and see how the same feeling connects to more stories/experiences in your life. Stories are literally stored in your body and triggered in specific body parts or postures in relation to a feeling/emotion. By staying with the feeling you are zooming out or time travelling through past stories that connect to this one feeling and you are entering a crossroads of the different intelligence centres of the triangle. From this crossroads you are now empowered to choose and experience how all of these intelligence centres have their own language and logic. You observe re-curring themes in your life, patterns, pre set responses and/or habits and understanding where they come from and why you now have the choice to change. Rather than narrowing your experience down in need of knowing and naming you are now opening up to the diversity and richness of life from a present place of accepting when and where you are.

Find the questions asked in the video here...

Please answer these following questions below to consolidate your practise. It will be easier to continue the practises in your own way once your experience is translated into your own words.

What did you discover from the shared thoughts of the 2 different mindsets? (1. the habit and 2. the opposite perspective) What else did you discover about yourself? How can this practise benefit you going forward?

Keep exercising 1: Observe and sense

Bad habits provide some type of benefit in your life, it's difficult to simply eliminate them (just stop doing it rarely works) Instead, you can replace a bad habit with a new habit that provides a similar benefit. For example every time you want a cigarette, take a sultana. You simply replace your action with another action.

Step 1: Use your body's tendencies to become more aware of habits that aren't serving you.

Step 2: When you are triggered,... be thankful (not easy). Dig to the root of the trigger through embodiment and polarise the trigger physically just like we've done in the exercise today. This will become easier and faster over time.

2: Daily check in moments Check in with your body and become more aware of your posture and energy flow.

3: Practise the pandiculation at least 4 times a week for about 7 minutes.

Working safe and aware: You will walk around and receive instructions via the video to enable you to participate and focus on the exercise. As you will be walking please consider to change your direction from time to time, especially when working in a small space to avoid dizziness. Please put your laptop on a table or even a bit higher on eye level; This will help you connect to the work more easily. Make sure you’re in a space where you can work privately and uninterrupted Have enough space to reach out freely in each direction without hitting anything No sharp corners, cords, loose objects or other trip hazards around Wear flexible clothing and avoid jewellery Leave your yoga mat or rug out this time, to enable yourself to walk around freely.

  • Make sure to watch the Consolidation video this week after you've completed week 6

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