Coming back to this blog, I've just completed reading through all of my entries from the past. Doing that I noticed that I had posted my verbal practice as of 2/19/11. This entry is my practice as I committed it to writing a few days ago. This version includes some bits that aren't necessarily verbal in parentheses along with some comments/ explanation in brackets. I want to be completely clear that this is my practice designed and built by me, for me. I specifically do not recommend anybody else use this other than as an example of how one human chooses to bring himself forth daily.
I always precede my core practice with an exercise in getting present. The words I use for this are: Breathing, loving (accompanied by breathing and calling forth my sense of love), [I might repeat parts of this any number of times until my experience corresponds to the intent.] Conscious contact [looking around, noticing my experience of contact with my world including my internal world and including all of the others I experience - both physical and otherwise.] Gratitude and reverence. [These words both represent aspects of my experience that I can’t fake and that I do recognize. If I’m truly present to my world, gratitude and reverence are present and I’m where I want to be to begin my practice.] Intention and focus. [This is the choice to begin my practice with intention and focus.] [PRACTICE] Who I am is choosing. [This begins my own creation - my identification of myself as a distinct being. I am the one who is making this particular set of choices, in this particular order.] And I choose to be in a direct, conscious relationship with my life. [with my experience of being here as a distinct point of observation and creation. This is both in terms of which events occur in my life and how the events in my life occur for me.] And, (toward this end) I choose to be conscious, intentional, intelligent; joyous, loving and brave; grateful, reverent and humble. [I take enough time with each word to be clear what I mean with each.] I choose to be alert and volitional. [The word “volitional” is experimental.] I choose to be this planet and, as this planet, I choose to be a world where love is first and foremost for everybody. (Just like gravity.) I choose to be this human in ways that call forth my utmost respect and admiration for who I am being and I choose to act in ways that result in outcomes that intend. As this human (With regard to action - doing vs. being), I choose to explore and to be fully present to my experience (to my experience of love in particular) and I choose to be responsible for my own creations. [I think this is the most important choice I make.] Toward this end, I choose to do this practice at least once each day and to pay attention and to notice how it’s going. I choose to notice in particular with regard to being who I say I am. And, I choose to notice whatever is here for me to notice, to learn what is here for me to learn and to do what is here for me to do. [This is where the volition is called for.] And, I choose to enjoy it all. I declare that I am (here and now) who I say I am. I a & a [acknowledge and affirm] a design that I see manifest in everything that I experience. And, I a & a the gratitude, reverence and responsibility that is my relationship to this design and to my experience. [Note that I am responsible for this design - certainly this part that I am speaking.] And I a & a this experience that I call my life occurs for me as miraculous. And, I a & a that there is work for me to do (both in the sense of chopping wood and carrying water and in the sense of personal growth and development - and that it requires me to be volitional). And I a & a that nothing is wrong. [This is critical for me in order to release whatever I might be holding/ creating as “wrong.”] I a & a the complete, unconditional love that I have for myself as I am and the complete, unconditional love that I have for all of these others that I experience, as they are (and as we are). And I a & a that among my own creations this practice is pre-eminent. And, I a & a that I include my journal on the list of work that is here for me to do. // Details of the wording change every time I do this practice and what there is for me to do changes more than most. It is whatever is up for me at the time.
Love, Woody
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