Balancing the bowl

The long and the short of it.

This is all fun! Make sure you read and listen to get the full story.

Disclaimer.

It seems to be all too easy to put some ideas into AI and get out a pretty good article, especially if, as my friend TB pointed out, you are as clear as possible on the parameters you wish to discuss. This all sounds very convenient to me, yet it is absent of the very superpower I have cultivated for over more than four decades, which is persistently applying myself in practice to discover what certain words, sentences and books are pointing towards. I want to know the land myself, to feel, sit, sense, taste, smell it, knowing full well that in the process I will inevitably cut myself, fall over, break, and come hard up against the hidden parts of me responsible for the chaos and confrontation in my life.

So when it came to this essay, I decided to put all the information on balancing the bowl through the left hemisphere of my brain, and see what comes out. I still don’t know, but I’m excited to discover! I will then be narrating the, most probably very short essay, where I will allow the right side of my mind to take over, to point and paint directions towards the inner actuality of ‘balancing your bowl’, or at least as I directly experience it. Because herein lies the world of differences between AI-generated text and the lived experience. All AI can do is repackage other people’s lived experience, and I can hear my dear friend TB correctly pointing out “that’s all can do!”. He is right, we all learn from experience, but there is something so very much undervalued in the lived energy of deep experience, because this was our original internet, wherein we sensed others’ inner reality before words and actions. We knew things that we couldn’t know, simply because we were, are part of an infinite field of wonder, life, energy and timeless existence. This is what AI, or at least in my experience, is devoid of.

So, here we go, let’s balance the bowl.

Return to the very basics of rotating your legs out, then spiralling them in from the lag balls inside your pelvic bowl.

As you do this, grab as much fascia (fabric) as you can, meaning keep your muscles engaged.

(Ok, this last sentence is not true, but on the surface it seems that way.)

Allow this movement of the leg bones to swing your hips forwards and backwards, gradually increasing the range of movement until it feels like you may end up thrusting or folding yourself off balance.

As you thrust your hips forwards using the external rotation of your leg bones, allow your arms to counterbalance back. You know you get this right when your arms allow your bowl to travel further forwards.

Then as you fold, allowing your hips to move backwards, allow your arms to move forwards to counterbalance the shift in weight.

Repeat.

I have no question AI would have done a better job on the surface of it, but we are not our surface. On the contrary, often our surface simply mirrors our internal reality, which is true from how we smile to how we sit and move.

The video coming later in the week will hopefully clarify this, as it also includes some, what I think, are fun games to help you get a feel for it.

So that’s it. That’s the info dump.

If you are interested in a longer mini rampage, then do listen to the audio at the top of the essay.

And if you have enjoyed this, I am very thankful, as I very much enjoyed sharing it.