The Inner Critic/Living with Should's

What would your life be like if you had no should's in it? If you could get up in the morning and just "be"? Let's say it's 7 am. You wake up. You feel like rolling around, so you roll around in your huge bed, or you move onto the floor and roll around there. You find yourself in a fetal position; your breathing is full and deep. You fall into a warm stillness. You stay there for 27 minutes. When thoughts that say, "This is ridiculous, it's time to eat" or whatever appear, you just take another delicious breath, notice the thought, and let go. Then you want to go back to sleep, so you get back in bed for another hour. You wake up; you have an urge to write down your experience, so you do it. And on and on for the rest of the day. The should's will show up; just breathe into them, and continue with your very special, very unique process.

After a few days or weeks of this, you may find patterns emerging. Or not; sometimes I seem to spiral into extremes. But if I have an abiding theme, as we spoke of ..., I use that as my core guide to the day. That theme is both my cheer leader, my coach, and sometimes my opposition. But I hold onto it, so when I have conflicting desires on what I want to do, the theme helps me to decide. As I write this, I was going to dance this afternoon for 2 hours with some friends. That was an idea that I had this morning. "I love to dance. I haven't been dancing enough. I had a great time doing contact improvisation last Tuesday. That time is available every day, and I've only attended once. I'm going to make sure I make it today." So now it's time to go; but my abiding theme is that I want to get pages written, specifically on the Spaciousness Project. And so here I am, writing! What is your abiding theme?

Sense how various tensions and postures

habitual postures and tensions influence our breath and overall sensation and overall sense of our selves