Why Rushing Is Actually Lazy
Hello beasts and beauties.
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This Week's Movement
There are two!​
These are fundamentals that I'll teach in the full 12 week Baseline coaching program.
Breathing into your sides and back while standing
Integrating lateral shifts without losing that
Watch time: 2:30ish each (watch in order)
Why practice these: To learn how to decompress (float) your spine and create an airbag of stability using the breath, which then allows you to release excessive muscle tone and move with an effortless connection radiation from your COREEEE
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Insight of The Week
It's lazy to rush
...and it's lazy not to rest + recharge.
Because you don't bounce back from rushing. You just get exhausted.
Rushing is like trying to force a pendulum further in one direction rather than just giving it a little push on the down-swing as it goes the other way. It'll swing away further for a moment, then come back with a vengeance - further than it ever could have if you'd pushed against its swing.
Right now, I'm pouring so much energy into making my teaching system as effective as possible.
I have "every reason to rush" (and it's been a pattern for me). So I'm practicing restfulness.
I have to keep reminding myself:
​Rushing doesn't mean you care more and it doesn't mean the result comes quicker.
Rushing is a lifestyle that sucks, and it's up to you to shift it, by carving space to chill the fuck out.
A. I want my mentees to receive the most relevant, potent and well-considered guidance
B. I want this to be delivered in a system that is easy to learn, memorable and continues to unfold after our time together
C. By systemising what I've gone through hundreds of times, I can help other who can't yet access this knowledge, sooner
The thing is, too much urgency actually steals from the work, my joy and my health.
And whenever I take time to regulate my nervous system and restore the basics, I rebuild wayyy faster.
Now, let's sit with this for a second
Maybe you have something you're focusing on too?
Something that matters to you, that you want ASAP. It could look nothing like the above.
Now consider for a minute... Has rushing actually helped you in the past?
Or has it just resulted in an inevitable crash, a re-do, or a bit of a "meh" let down?
Let's say you get that thing you're looking for.
What does that change for you?
Who are you going to become, then?
I promise you, you can feel that and be that now - in fact, allowing yourself to make that shift is what will magnetise a matching external reality. It takes a high level of intention and commitment, but it's not harder - it's easier. And sometimes easier feels harder only because it's unfamiliar. So, the answer is to relax. Rest into forward momentum.
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What I’ve been doing
Well I guess I spilled the beans already. Oh well.
I guess I'm continuing to practice getting out of my own way.
Laughing at mistakes quicker and fixing myself less. It's working.
We usually have the answers and they're much simpler and much kinder than the one's we're looking for.
I hope you find some of that today.
Love,
Jack