Trail 1: From knowledge to experience
A trail map from information-seeking to practising: from seeking external answers to discovering and choosing from internal wisdom and experience. It lists the symptoms of being stuck, the key of willingness, practices such as running experiments and self-trust cultivation, typical obstacles, and outcomes like trust, resilience and friendliness.
Also called:
- From information-seeking to practicing
- From seek / find (external input) to discover / choose (internal wisdom & experience)
- From self-doubt to confidence
- From indifference to caring
- From unconsciously reactive to Practitioner mindset
Symptoms:
- Seeking external input on what to do
- Anxiety
- Paralysis through analysis
- Going in circles
- Depression
- People-pleasing
- Burn-out
- Stress
- Addictions
Key to travel the path: Willingness
Important practices for traveling the path:
- running experiments
- self-trust cultivator for 15 or 30 days (10 things)
- meditation - learning to sit in the storm
- Journaling
- Be, Do, Have
- Care How You Feel
Typical obstacles:
- running experiments
- knowing it all already
- not-knowing and needing to know
- Relying on your intellect, trying to think your way out (egoic intelligence)
- believing we’re stupid/useless/lazy
Outcomes:
- Trust
- Being ourselves
- Patience
- Accomplishment
- Pride
- Friendliness - to self and others
- Resilience
To learn more, follow these links to related content:
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Standing Tall as a WarriorLearning to sit in the storm is not a metaphor — it's a skill, and the cushion is where you build it. Come sit with whatever is raging and find you can stay, upright, as who you are.
Whose story are you living? Diabolical Distraction DevicesThe answers you keep seeking out there won't tell you your own story. Put down the Diabolical Distraction Devices, open the journal, and bring your attention back to your own story first — who is going to live it if you don't?
Be, Do, HaveStop waiting to know enough before you can be enough. Be, Do, Have flips the whole order — step into being who you want to be right now, and let the doing and having follow. Try it today.
Care How You FeelHow much do you really care how you feel? Enough to act on it, over and over? This is the practice that turns indifference into a life you actually choose.
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