I've been doing this practice - at least once each day - for more than fifteen years and it has been changing all along. But the changes in the last few months, weeks, and days have seemed more significant. The physical metaphor that has come to mind has some parts of my structure standing in shifting sand as if there were a small earthquake shaking my world. That sounds more dramatic than it feels to me but my experience of this latest change seems to warrant that image.
The change is that I have added "and all of life" to the end of the first sentence in my practice. So I now begin by saying: "I choose to be in a direct, conscious relationship with my life and with all of life." This changes much of the rest of my practice. I'm not going to go into excruciating detail here but it's enough to justify the metaphor.
Another thing that I've done recently is to explicitly acknowledge the shift in the practice from being to doing. This is part of a generally heightened attention and awareness to the distinction in my experience. I have added after noting the distinction: "As this human I choose to act - to do what I think might somehow serve or empower bringing forth a world where love is first and foremost." I'm still working on the exact wording there.
This practice is my personal conversation for evolution. I'm still looking forward to a time when somebody else actually reads this blog and, dare I think it, responds.
Love, Woodson
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