It’s a wonderful, albeit overused, idea.
If it feels a bit too woo-woo for you, try this thought experiment on: Remember when you were learning to walk? (Me neither so let’s imagine;)) Whatever you want to call what you did to go from the ground to standing without having done it before.
That.
It wasn’t about engaging this or that muscle, though muscular engagement certainly did happen.
It wasn’t about knowing a progression, though a progression did happen (and it’s a beautiful one, as lots of us movement folks are figuring out and incorporating into the work we do).
It wasn’t even a “practice” you were “doing” yet. And you didn’t know if other kids were doing it or not.
But something in your DNA, in the root of your being, wanted to walk.
That.
So back to our original word, I am struck by:
1. the power of intent — or whatever you want to call it — and the self-organization that happens around it when it’s real,
but now, also,
2. this question: who, exactly, is the one with the intent to do something?
(Is it really something you need to do or is it already there? And if it’s not there, we could say there there is an intent there do not do, or to be still or whatever else.)
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