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We move through different phases in life. That is to say we start with curiosity and move through learning, knowledge, knowing and doing.
Think back on learning to talk, walk, ride a bike, or drive a car, or anything else you’ve ever learned to do.
Same progression every time. Curiosity – Learning – knowledge – knowing – doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At some point we become motion machines. We are constantly moving, always doing one thing while thinking about something else.
The dichotomy is that we forget about just being when our body and mind are constantly doing different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Full stop for the spirit.<\/em> When was the last time you just sat there with no distractions? Simply being? There was a time – in the first decade of our lives – when we could do that. When we were fascinated by the raindrops racing down the windowpane. (better than doing homework\ud83d\ude01) But then we grew up and forgot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is Joe Parent in his book Zen Golf…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zen Golf<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re so busy doing things and spend so little time simply being that we should probably be called \u201chuman doings\u201d instead of \u201chuman beings.\u201d Another reference to this can be found in the Blacklist<\/em> TV series…<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Blacklist<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Let’s not worry about that. Yet another reference is the song Return To Innocence<\/strong> by Enigma.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been very fortunate to have realized that doing<\/strong> is not only a body thing. It’s not only running physically from one task to another but it also happens in the mind. This is not<\/strong> an easy habit to deal with. We’ve been doing this since around the age of 10 – 13. However, simply being aware of what’s happening calms the mind down a bit. Just being<\/em> means that you are completely aware of where you are, who you’re with and what is going on in the moment. This is a goal well worth aiming for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you for reading \/ listening. Leave a comment if you have time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ~A.J~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dichotomy Between Doing & Being. A Goal Well Worth Aiming For. The Human Progression. We move through different phases in life. That is to say we start with curiosity and move through learning, knowledge, knowing and doing.Think back on learning to talk, walk, ride a bike, or drive a car, or anything else you’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10,17],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","tag-awareness","tag-presence","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aj-sc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Joe Parent<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
Not now.
Let’s just BE.”
Raymond Reddington talking to Lizzy toward the end of the series.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nHuman Beings.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
It is the Mind<\/strong> that begins moving as soon as we wake up in the morning until we fall asleep at night – mostly 3 steps ahead of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It takes a lot of self-compassion and patience to slow down the mind and gain clarity of thought.
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It means doing one thing with the body and the same thing with the mind.
It means forgetting what you want to say next so that you can truly listen.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nTakeaways.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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