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One of the most efficient and health-aligned ways to be plugged into daily practice is to honor the reality of cycles and phases and learn to work with them.
Something I've noticed a lot in today's world is that many people want to walk around with every single adaption they covet all of the time. And this is really at odd ends with the way of nature. The way of nature is one in which there is constant transformation from state to state to state.
In many ways, we could say that the language of nature is alchemical.
And it is no surprise that in every system of alchemy I have ever encountered, there is a fundamental understanding of cycles and phases. It means that we work with one overall intentionality or flavor of practice at a time.
We allow certain changes to take hold, and then we shift out of that into another phase of practice, and then we allow other changes to take hold…. possibly taking aspects of the first phase and bringing them into the new phase.
But it's important to recognize that as we change from phase to phase to phase, so to do the adaptions that we are currently most present with.
So it means that if you're working, for example, on a strength phase at this particular point in time, that may be what's emphasized. And then you move on to a type of pliability phase, a softening phase. Well, some of that strength will carry over, but at the same time, there will be changes in how strong you are. You may not be as strong by the end of it. There are also changes that are made that prepare the tissues in and of themselves, getting them ready to be more responsive to body softening practices.
And once you're done with both phases, what you are on the other end… as you move into the third phase is totally different, than if you had not gone through both phases.
This is true even though you are losing something as you move from phase to phase. But you're also gaining something as you move between them as well.