Facing - How to Practice
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- As you think about facing, one of the things
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- that makes it difficult is that it's a bit ambiguous.
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- What is it I'm supposed to be doing? Do I just try hard?
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- Which is almost never a good answer.
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- And the first thing is to say, well, if I'm aware
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- of something, if I'm aware of this remote control,
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- one thing is to be aware that it's there
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- because of my, in my mind, I can visualize it.
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- And a different thing is to say why I'm aware of it
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- and I'm gonna let it my awareness influence my body.
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- And then what you can do to practice is you can be aware
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- of remote control, a person,
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- and you can just say, how can my awareness change my body?
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- And then eventually you can say, well, what if
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- that remote control or that person moves, forget footwork.
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- It's not about your feet. As they move slowly.
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- And you can say, how does
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- that influence my body's movement without me feeling
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- obligated to actually be looking at them,
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- but rather to say they're acutely in my awareness
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- and it lets my body move.
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- If you have a corner of a room sticking out,
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- it's a good place to practice that is around that corner,
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- Right? And so that's talking
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- about the other half.
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- So one is you can move the remote controller, your partner,
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- um, and the other is you can move yourself, right? So
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- If I stand still and he moves around me,
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- Right? She becomes the corner,
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- right?
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- Then you can have,
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- and you get this sense of almost like you're stalking
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- prey and then you're gonna hug them.
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- And you can do that maybe without the hug,
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- with a standing lamp, with, with a,
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- a corner of a piece of furniture.
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- Just anything pretty much.
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- Okay? So that's number one.
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- And, and, uh, how to practice this.
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- But number two is if you can really be telling yourself a
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- story and really be doing that story.
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- So if you tell a story of, you know, I'm coming back
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- to someone I've missed, and you say, oh,
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- I'm coming back to someone I've missed.
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- And then that's a story that gives you the sense of, well,
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- we went from more away
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- to more towards, and it was really real.
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- Um, so in some sense you can say it,
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- it doesn't even have to be about mechanics.
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- It can be how do you express this story in your body?
