I was musing on the AA proverb
"You don't think yourself into a new way of acting, you act yourself into a new way of thinking"
and it got me thinking about how posture patterns and thinking patterns are related.
Yesterday I was cycling over to an office I do some work at and noticed that I was thinking about how I didn't like the office, couldn't get work done there, etc. etc. I was in quite a loop of thinking and recognised that I've been there many times before. Then I noticed that I couldn't feel much of my body at all. I was just moving along on automatic.
So, this gave me the chance to practice 4-part centring again.
And then I could feel my body and my hips again (which are the part of me that goes out of awareness) and asked myself "what would it be like if I had a little more focus right now" (which is the quality I'm working on right now) I could feel my hips get a little softer and kind of more turned to the front, to the direction I was moving. My knees were also a little more relaxed and aligned to the front. This made me feel like my energy was now much more focussed forward, and that I felt much more present.
Then as I continued to cycle, I noticed that I was actually experiencing myself cycling and that I my thoughts about the day at that office had changed. I was not not worried about what would happen when I got there, as a result was much more relaxed and open and didn't have any problems there (in fact had a very productive day)
So, by acting, by using the simple mechanism of 4 part centring I changed a repetive pattern of thought that could well have led to be living the kind of day that I've had too many times before!
