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Do Something that Makes No Sense

Do Something that Makes No Sense

To Your Mind

Not to be contrary, or to be silly–but rather, allow yourself to do something that doesn't make sense to your mind. Have you ever had a moment when you felt like someone was watching you? Or when you had a strong impulse to do something that you didn't understand? Maybe you were on the way to run an errand and suddenly you found yourself having a strong impulse to go in another direction. Perhaps your mind wanted to go one way, and your body wanted to go another. Or you found yourself wanting to say something to someone without knowing why...

The invitation to do something that makes no sense (to your mind) is the invitation to experiment with, to explore, letting something other than cognition guide you. At first, the nature of this guidance may be murky. It may be simply a hazy inclination in a direction you don't understand. Often, we brush of these glimmers of intuition as a sort of nuisance. Or a distraction. We double down in our efforts to ignore them. Yet sometimes it is this small still voice in us that is the deeper knowing.

So this practice is about making room for the parts of ourselves that may carry vague ancestral intuitions, longings, or yearning that don't seem to make sense. It is about giving these impulses a bit of room to breathe, to see if they may carry us in meaningful directions.

Related Practices:

See Get Lost. See Ways of Knowing. See Think with Your Feet. See Sit Spot.

Who taught us this?

This is something Gabriel discovered along the way...he's certainly not the first person to have noticed this.

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Who taught us this?

This is probably the practice that launched this model, for its convener. He dropped out of thinking, then dropped out of Yale. Learning that this was possible, that you could drop out of thinking and still exist, was the doorway that gave birth to this model. It has taken 25 years. Ilarion Merculieff speaks about learning how to do this at age 6.

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