creativity(/unsticking) protocol:
Intructions:
- Do something you’ve never done before, that you can do and seems safe enough and ok to do, as best you can currently tell.
- Repeat, over and over again, as needed.
Notes:
- In addition to "doing" something you've never done before, you might try bottom-up "allowing" or surrendering to something you've never allowed or surrendered to before (if it seems safe enough and ok enough). You might "participate" in something you've never participated in before...
- Maybe that "something you've never done before" is wholly novel or maybe it's something deeply familiar, with a glimmer of novelty.
- Maybe that "something you've never done before" is something have done before but you're doing it in a new way/manner, perhaps with a new implicit or explicit adverb, or, if it's transitive, you're doing it to a new thing.
- If you have no "degrees of freedom," don't force. Just wait.
- If you have very few "degrees of freedom," you might have to go "backwards" or "sideways" for a long time, through familiar things, to actualize the totally new thing, or it definitely might be immediately available or almost immediately available
- In addition to "safe enough" and "ok," you might also choose things that are fun, interesting, tolerable, engaging, attractive, exciting, strange, weird, things that youre curious about...
- If you're very at a loss, you might go through preliminary/auxilliary practices you haven't tried. Or, whether or not you have tried them all, you might take p/a practices and change words or write them in your own words, and then that's your new thing. You can keep modifying them as per your intuitive interest or sense that they might be the right thing to do.
- This might expand the space of things to do so much that it might be (even more) paralyzing, if you were already paralyzed on some dimensions. Will this work/terminate/something? Yes, Buddha nature, etc. Keep mixing in preliminary/auxiliary practices, main practices, the meta protocol, other tools, etc.
- Remember that in addition to exploring NEW things, it's just as important to experimentally revisit OLD things, sometimes, to see if there's more redo-to-undo of that "type" available or if there's additional "passes" to now be done because newly understood error correction is indicated. Loosely speaking, this process is sort of 5% top-down (until very long-run) and 95% spontaneous, takes care of itself, un-managed, and bottom up..
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