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Consistent daily practice of any kind, that actually has weight in terms of its impact on your experience, is going to generate friction. And this friction is in fact a feature and not a bug of consistent practice.
In some ways, there's no way to escape it. And for that matter, if you are a serious practitioner, it is part of what you want to be happening.
Now, that doesn't mean that every single practice needs to be harsh
It doesn't mean that every single practice needs to be difficult.
It doesn't mean that they all need to be uncomfortable or that you need to kill yourself in the pursuit of some kind of ideal that someone has laid out for you.
But what it does mean is that if you are not engaging with a type of practice that is consistently asking you to take the wet stone of your capacity, so to speak, and wear away at the dullness of the edge of your experience, then it's likely that you are not really doing what you are seeking to be doing.
Because fundamentally, the rhythmic it is the nature of consistent daily practice to carve a set of grooves and open channels into new experiences. And so as that happens, there is a shedding away of various layers of self that just need to go.
And as that happens, there are also new layers of self that are being born, and that practice is inherently a destructive and creative nature, that we are calling into our experience.
That's going to be based in a type of friction.
And as you shift, so does your connection to:
The world.
The different channels.
The different options.
The different possibilities.