softlogic practices
-- Settle into contradiction.
-- Develop a personal system for evaluating clouds. Keep it a secret, but keep notes.
-- Write anonymous but genuine letters of thanks to people who have wronged you or caused you to suffer. You can, but don't have to, send them.
-- Start some things with an intention to fail.
-- Make poems of three or four words.
-- Read crowds allegorically.
-- Extend silences.
-- Find three coincidental patterns around you right now.
-- Trace the connections from a negative action to three positive outcomes.
-- Give yourself time and opportunity for getting lost.
-- Entertain insects.
-- Forget more.
-- Clarify less.
-- Give proper names to objects you often use (e.g. "Malcom (the refrigerator) is out of eggs.")
-- Carry a stone to water.
-- Carry a cup of water to the ocean.
-- Give someone the last word as though your silence were a gift.
-- Make a list of 100 things that have taught you patience.
-- Find a way to see any person's face as innocent.
-- Just after finishing something, don't move. Sit or stand motionless and quiet. Then, continue on with your activities.
-- Imagine people as half their age and tossing a ball in the air.
-- Imagine that you are responsible for the one meter of space surrounding your body. You don't own it. You are merely responsible for it, tending it, to care for it while you are in it. You are not responsible for the area beyond this one meter, unless you move into it. Imagine the care extending to a location when two people are near each other or touching or making love.
-- Imagine a complete short film in your mind. Keep it a secret.
-- Compose a poem in your mind before certain actions, such as before you turn the car ignition or lock the front door at night.
-- Observe people as though they have been choreographed.
-- Decide that the search is over and that now everything you experience is the finding.
-- Watch yourself like a film.
-- Draw a playful map of your mind.
-- Imagine how everything is a gift.
-- What is the language in Heaven?
-- Imagine how an event of suffering was a lesson made perfectly for you.
-- Paint a landscape in your mind.
-- Extend discomforts as positive experiences.
-- Prolong an uncomfortable situation for two more seconds. View it as a secret accomplishment.
-- Wait for two more seconds in a situation of discomfort.
-- Ask 10 people in different places for the time. Thank them sincerely.
-- Develop a simple, mental, symbolic ritual for acknowledging your appreciation of things, people, actions, etc. (e.g. After taking a letter from the mailbox, imagine a yellow flower. After a cashier gives you your change, imagine a short phrase of birdsong.)
-- When you meet situations in which one way to proceed is logical and the other beautiful, choose beauty one time and logic the next. Keep notes of what happens.
-- Imagine the poetry a stranger is reciting to him or herself. Try to write some of it down.
-- Design difficulties into things.
-- Understand without explanation.
-- Look for beautiful paradoxes.
-- Develop a personal system for evaluating clouds. Keep it a secret, but keep notes.
-- Write anonymous but genuine letters of thanks to people who have wronged you or caused you to suffer. You can, but don't have to, send them.
-- Start some things with an intention to fail.
-- Make poems of three or four words.
-- Read crowds allegorically.
-- Extend silences.
-- Find three coincidental patterns around you right now.
-- Trace the connections from a negative action to three positive outcomes.
-- Give yourself time and opportunity for getting lost.
-- Entertain insects.
-- Forget more.
-- Clarify less.
-- Give proper names to objects you often use (e.g. "Malcom (the refrigerator) is out of eggs.")
-- Carry a stone to water.
-- Carry a cup of water to the ocean.
-- Give someone the last word as though your silence were a gift.
-- Make a list of 100 things that have taught you patience.
-- Find a way to see any person's face as innocent.
-- Just after finishing something, don't move. Sit or stand motionless and quiet. Then, continue on with your activities.
-- Imagine people as half their age and tossing a ball in the air.
-- Imagine that you are responsible for the one meter of space surrounding your body. You don't own it. You are merely responsible for it, tending it, to care for it while you are in it. You are not responsible for the area beyond this one meter, unless you move into it. Imagine the care extending to a location when two people are near each other or touching or making love.
-- Imagine a complete short film in your mind. Keep it a secret.
-- Compose a poem in your mind before certain actions, such as before you turn the car ignition or lock the front door at night.
-- Observe people as though they have been choreographed.
-- Decide that the search is over and that now everything you experience is the finding.
-- Watch yourself like a film.
-- Draw a playful map of your mind.
-- Imagine how everything is a gift.
-- What is the language in Heaven?
-- Imagine how an event of suffering was a lesson made perfectly for you.
-- Paint a landscape in your mind.
-- Extend discomforts as positive experiences.
-- Prolong an uncomfortable situation for two more seconds. View it as a secret accomplishment.
-- Wait for two more seconds in a situation of discomfort.
-- Ask 10 people in different places for the time. Thank them sincerely.
-- Develop a simple, mental, symbolic ritual for acknowledging your appreciation of things, people, actions, etc. (e.g. After taking a letter from the mailbox, imagine a yellow flower. After a cashier gives you your change, imagine a short phrase of birdsong.)
-- When you meet situations in which one way to proceed is logical and the other beautiful, choose beauty one time and logic the next. Keep notes of what happens.
-- Imagine the poetry a stranger is reciting to him or herself. Try to write some of it down.
-- Design difficulties into things.
-- Understand without explanation.
-- Look for beautiful paradoxes.
