Do Something that Makes No Sense

Do Something that Makes No Sense

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.