Embodying Change
Quick
or Slow?
A lot of what I do, change can come more quickly than
doing things 'the good ol' fashioned way' -- which is why I
use all the tools I use! And then there are times
where it's really just going to take time to seep into the
bones.
Tortoise
and the Hare Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
From the French of La Fontaine, illustrator John Rae
In the quick column
There is an idea that deep
learning can be done nearly instantaneously.
If the awareness is really, really complete, the learning
happens in a flash. Ortho-bionomy works with this
principle.
When I pull in Resonance Repatterning, Reiki,
Tapping, or Psyck-K, sometimes changes can come as quickly
as the session, for horses and for people, and it can be
profound and lasting change from just one session. And this can cover awareness and ability!
This is the rabbit who wins.
In the good ol' fashioned
column
Then other times, it's sort of a mystery as to which
layer of the onion I'm on, and when the onion will totally
get peeled. The tools can help peel off a layer
quicker than slower, but there's other layers to go, and no
telling how many.
There are also learnings where you
simply have to keep going back to the well.
The Body-Mind-Centering classes are a lot like
this. So are the Feldenkrais and Alexander
approaches. These are processes and rememberings,
reminders to allow and to let and to attend to.
Riding lessons and 'training' often fall into the
category of returning to the well.
When this is the case, I find one topic and go deep
and it is plenty to chew on.
When I ride, I may spend a week on
lengthening/shortening via the kidneys/bladder, playing in
walk, trot and canter. Or maybe I'll spend a week
freeing the neck and floating forward, noticing how I am in
the corners, on circles, in transitions, in lateral
work. Or a different week finding the spirals -- in
the corners, on circles, in transitions, in lateral
work. (Yes, even in transitions!) Or playing
with the balance of my pelvis, doing everything I know to
do while attending to the balance of my pelvis.
And then the next week I'll move on and let whatever
learning I have be the learning that's mine.
This is the tortoise's race.
Tri it youself! Let me know how it goes! I'd
love to hear from you.
L
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