Why is the exploring the Body Pool so important? Because it might not be clear just how much of your experience in coming from the body, or from the internal space, and not from the environment. When I was on my training in China, doing wall squats every day, I noticed patterns coming up in my body that were nothing to do with the current situation. Or even if some were related to the current situation, such as wanting to avoid discomfort, I noticed these patterns playing out of their own accord, then my reading of the situation coming in afterward. We see this all the time. When someone describes a situation at work or home or school as hurtful or disempowering or frustrating, the emotional reaction is included in the description as if it's part of the external reality. Whereas it's ultimately a set of decisions that have become invisible because they're now automatic. I sometimes wonder if i should be as tired as I am based on my workload (which is not small). Is it the work I'm doing that tired me? Or is it the state I'm trying to maintain, i.e. the patterns I'm performing that uses up excess energy? Thoughts?

Space is crucial to our life experience. There are activities that open space, and those that close it down. What are the activities in your life that give you a sense of openness, potential, flexibility, mobility? I've bee thinking about this in regard to the physical spaces we occupy in society: offices, streets, shops, restaurants. The layout of physical spaces, but also their energy, send signals that effect our internal space. This is not to say the outside is dictating the inside: if the internal world is more developed, then the ability to interpret external spaces and events for our own use is stronger. But there is an effect, and the majority of spaces, especially public, but also often private, feel restrictive. They're either designed to steer us in a certain direction, or close off certain directions, or otherwise aren't designed consciously at all. What spaces do you inhabit on a daily, weekly basis? What have you notices about how they effect your internal state? What's one space that had an inspiring or releasing effect on you?

what i'm really interested in doing is developing internal tools/technologies that can assist people in carving out and cultivating their own unique world space/s. the world should feel like a unique expression of your individual life. what are these technologies? effectively exercises that develop, first, the unique view of the world, followed by expressions of that view, and ultimately outputs that shift the shared space of the world, and contribute to our collective development. the biggest point people miss is that the perspective itself remains anchoring the life patterns, and they keep trying to shift things around in their life without upgrading the internal machinery of consciousness. so how can we get started with this? visualisation or guided exercises that allow you to turn off your everyday mind and explore new areas of consciousness. experimentation, play: looking outside of your everyday patterns, thoughts and perspective, within the context of your daily life. developing a practice --- developing consistency, moulding new patterns into your world space, from the inside out. questions? where is everyone at?

Ok so everyone is constantly cultivating energetic structures through their thoughts and actions, and this is like the vessel that carries us through the world. The Boat. Why is this important? Because the nature of the structure you maintain through your day to day life, is the baseline of the things that ‘happen’ to you. Depending on what the thoughts, actions, habits, perspectives, interpretations are, we can build stable, unstable, fast, slow, big, small, regular, irregular structures. the direction we take day to day defines how this masterpiece or life’s work will look, feel and move. (Maybe this also points to cultivating structures over lifetimes — i.e. some people are born with more established structure and then continue or fine tune it through a series or karmic experiences. The patterns and forms and even objects, people, experiences that come into view in our lives are part of this structure, reflect to us facets of this internal structure, so that we ca begin to grasp and mould it into the vehicle appropriate to our direction and purpose in life, or appropriate to our essential nature.) Why is this important? Part of developing and refining this structure is in making choices in our lives. Another part is awareness — recognising elements and details in ourselves and in the world around us. When choices are in alignment with who we are and the things we need to develop in our lifetime, they fit together like a puzzle and form a cohesive set of mechanisms, or toolkit, that can manage life in a smooth and cohesive way (eventually). When our choices are all over the place, so will be the car we’re trying to ride on: wheels all different sizes, no floor, one seat, but it’s not the driver’s seat, doors that all open in different directions, etc. How can we learn to look at life in a way that allows us to see these structures at play, rather than just getting sucked into the immediate drama, or the surface level of meaning? This is the question that governs all spiritual teaching.

Why do only few people really realise spiritual progress, when others only see some results, and most people either give up early on, or don't engage at all? It seems clear that it's the people who really find peace, balance, power, forward movement, are the people who make a system their own, and live it. Who absorb and adjust the techniques not as something they 'do', but as the flow and structure of life. Maybe this is what it takes to truly integrate change. Otherwise we're still harbouring underdeveloped parts of ourselves --- areas that are uncomfortable or painful to touch. Life mechanisms are about leverage, and if we're not using them for our direction and purpose, they're likely pushing against the progress we're making in the other parts of our lives. So what should one do? Obviously it makes sense to start with established tools, but we get trapped if we take them for granted and expect them to do the work for us. A hammer isn't going to build a house on its own, and it might be used to destroy the materials we've carefully gathered. The existing tools are there to give us leverage to mould the areas of our lives --- especially the difficult ones --- into world-changing mechanisms. Into vehicles that carry us into the future, rather than obstacles that keep us in the past.