subject: What Kind Of Practice Makes Perfect? [print this page] You want to improve your health? Permanently transform your eating or exercise patterns for the better? Do you want to embody a different approach to success in your career, business or relationships?
Consistent practice is essential, but only if you are practicing the right things!
When you are transitioning from an old reality to a new more vibrant reality, everything that went into creating your old reality must surface.
It must be felt and acknowledged, without identifying with it, in order to be integrated, so it no longer controls you (remember what we resist persists). This means all your judgements, beliefs, repressed feelings, insecurities that produced the old reality are going to surface to make room for a new way of being. If we practice a new behaviour over and over and over again without also practicing feeling at a bodily sensation level what is emerging, our bodies can never fully adapt to the change and make space for the new reality to emerge.
Everything that went into creating the old reality is still within you, within your embodied neurology. By simply behaviourally changing, you might be able to create a muscle memory change that retains 10-20% of your efforts. But this isnt effort to produce radical change, especially if you are working with shifting addictions such as emotional eating, over-extending, relationship addiction and chronic over doing.
Thus include into your practice process, not only the behavioural change but also:
1. Notice what is happening in the body at a sensation level (make sure to bypass the emotional state
