That’s the thing we’re getting at with an idea like “relax” or “be careful” or even “be in your power” or anything like that.
And the funny thing about it, that it’s a predisposition we’re talking about, is that it’s a really hard thing to explain well.
Because if we’re talking about shifting a predisposition, then it’s not really about what the predisposition does. It’s about what it is.
And what, exactly, is a predisposition if not something that is but doesn't really exist until something manifest points to its existence by moving along its wood grain? Think about the wind in a silent movie: you'd have no idea unless you saw a leaf or a sailboat.
(This, by the way, is why I like the words “body attitude,” as an attitude is something that affects everything one does. Right? It’s plain as day. And it’s also not anything you can point to in particular; you can only point to how the attitude expresses.)
Those expressions can be tinkered with pretty easily: do this or don’t do that. It’s the attitude that’s much deeper waters.
So why this big build up? One way to build an embodied practice of any sorts is around this nebulous little concept — or really around the actuality of its lived experience in you — and it’s an easy thing to gloss over.
(It’s also an easy thing to get stuck in, so feel more than free to disregard all of this.)
If your mind feels a little hazy reading this, if you’re not sure you’re fully grocking it: great. (Seriously.)
Suggestion from here: drop this concept entirely — nothing else to ruminate on — and if it finds you later today or later this week, have a dance, in your body: the cells of the skin of these words dancing with the cells, bacteria and all, we call [insert your name here].