Class 2 · Practice 2
Generative Commitment
Stabilizing the vessel
✦Opening Insight
Your brain's most important job is not rationality, not emotion, not imagination or creativity or empathy. Your brain's most important job is to manage your body's energy by predicting energy needs before they arise.
— Lisa Feldman Barrett
Being awake to our habitual patterns is a motivator to be in charge of ourselves — to express what we hold as noble and dear in our brief and precious human lives.
💬 Sharing Your Wonder
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What Wonder did you encounter this week?
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What did you experience in doing Warm Stillness?
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What did you learn that might encourage others?
🔍 Deeper Inquiry — Mining for Wonder Gold
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What obstacles or barriers did you encounter?
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What did Warm Stillness open up, if anything?
🌙Practice 2 — Generative Commitment
Commitment requires eyes open — being undeceived so you naturally abide in what you hold most precious. We are conditioned beings with habits of mind and body, ruts and patterns that comfort us in their familiarity.
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Notice what comes up when you practice Warm Stillness this week — especially thoughts or feelings that want to delay or block your practice.
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Each day, write down anything you notice that wants to derail you.
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Before class next week, review your notes and write down what patterns you observe in what comes up for you.
🤝Working Agreements
We honor the efforts, experience, ideas, and sharing of all by listening more than we speak (2 ears, 1 mouth) and by being kind.
There are no dumb questions and no wrong answers.
Keep an attitude of mutual support at all times.
Suspend judgment, disagreement, and personal preference for the duration of our time together.
📓 Reflection Journal
What habitual patterns show up when you sit down to practice?