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When my beginnings I miss

LULLABY #10

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“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times. It’s the equivalent of the dream time, in your daily life, times when things get sorted out and reshuffled. If you’re constantly awake work-wise you don’t allow that to happen. One of the reasons I have to take distinct breaks when I work is to allow the momentum of a particular direction to run down, so that another one can establish itself.”

BRIAN ENO in Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno

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“In our Ego we are impatient to know the answer to puzzles and paradoxes rather than to understand their meaning.
We intellectualize rather than intuit.
Intellectualization alone reinforces the ego’s inertia.
It has its place, but at the proper moment the intellect must surrender to unknowing so that new knowledge can enter.” 

Dr. Amit Goswami—theoretical quantum physicist, in
“The Self aware Universe – How Consciousness Creates the material world.”

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“The answer will always be found in simplicity. The reason athletes (and all of us for that matter) struggle is that the quality of our thinking has declined. When that happens, we revert to the intellect for the answers and the intellect will always overcomplicate things.
Now, since we’ve been taught to grind it out, we force it. But, from this low state of mind, we’re not capable of finding answers, so our quality of thought continues to drop down as we struggle.

But what if we simply took our foot off the gas pedal? Our thoughts and mood would settle, and we would see the same challenges as opportunities. The insights start to flow again, so answers become obvious.

Once you grasp that fundamental concept you realize that willpower will not help you. You’re not capable in the moment. The more we try to control our effort (or our thoughts about effort), the more we tend to get in our own way - and reduce our odds for success. So I encourage my clients to step back and use a term I call “stillpower,” which means don’t push ahead but rather be still. The feelings that come will be of ease, clarity, and responsiveness.
It sounds crazy. I mean, do nothing? Yes. Do not make any decisions from a low mindset - just be still.”

Garret Kramer in
“Stillpower: The True Path to Flow, Clarity, and Responsiveness”
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LET GO OF CONTROL