pith instructions (experimental):

  • When you have a choice, usually but not always choose effortlessness, effortless action, and spontaneity over effort. When it's safe/good/right/ok, let it happen; let yourself find yourself doing what you've just now already been doing.
  • Usually, though not always, though definitely in the limit, choose wellbeing and relief.
  • Be patient, do it differently, but don’t do it harder.
  • Temporarily, when it’s safe, give up concrete and particular goals.
  • Allow yourself to be very surprised, allow yourself to be nonnormative.
  • Relax, surrender into (when safe), flowingly, participate.
  • When safe, let it hurt.
  • Be loosely precise, precisely loose, let go.
  • Slow down, allow detail to come and to unfold and to present itself to you.
  • If there is resistance, then there is force, they are like a Newtonian equal-and-opposite pair, and they mean that something is unheard, something is left out, something is too fast, something is out of order.
  • No haste, no rushing, no hurrying, no skipping, no corner-cutting, no bypass, no override, no-out-of-order, no jamming, no grinding
  • All "mistakes" are undoable. They are part of the process, part of the timeline, they are accounted for.
  • When safe, allow memory, allow fantasy, allow planning and problem solving, allow thinking and reverie, all is "permitted"/"allowed"/etc.

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Unintegrated scratch pieces:

  • Turn towards interest, engagement, creativity, experimentation, play, fun, nonvigilance.
  • Sometimes seek complete solitude and no-chance-of-interruption. Sometimes seek life and people and everything.
  • Find the proper places for love, compassion, gratitude (and fear, and hate, and etc.)

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