02-09-2014, 12:00 AM
Great topic here! This is something I'm working on already as someone who only made the commitment to walk the warrior's path a couple months ago, and I'm sure many struggle with it for a long time, (C.C. sure did). A lot of great advice in this thread. I squealed with delight when I read...
Kaomea wrote:It's also nice to keep in mind, while traveling on the path of the warrior, that all warriors travel their own paths. We may walk beside one another yet our paths are different and our own.
Couldn't agree more here. Except instead of advising people to keep it in mind I'd suggest they tatoo that on their foreheads.
One has to find their own path. Others can try to help but they can only do so much as they don't know what path is the right one for you. I mean they can tell you your path probably doesn't involve eating potato chips and watching TV all day and other things like that, and maybe make suggestions but that's it. You've got to use your intent to find the path as much as to walk it and stay on it.
One thing that's been helping me with this is trying more not-doings with my routines. This involves two things. First is looking hard at the reasons for my routines and finding what I ought to get rid of. The second is selecting new things to do instead. I recently started learning to draw. As I'm learning this skill, I'm seeing things that apply to sorcery. In drawing there's a concept called "negative space". This involves looking at the shape of the space around objects to get an idea of how to draw them instead of looking at the objects themselves. For example, if you were drawing a horses legs the natural tendency of looking at the legs themselves and trying to draw them where you think they should be tends to produce results that are less than satisfactory. If you look at the "negative space" between the horse's legs however, you'll often see a very simple shape that you can then draw to get the legs positioned properly in your drawing. Additionally, once I've developed a bit more proficiency I'm planning to draw some of the images from my dreams. I'm sure that bringing that intent with me into dreaming can only be helpful for my dreaming awareness.
I didn't pick drawing as a new not-doing for those reasons though. I just sort of thought about what I could do that I've never really done which would fit in well with my current circumstances and seemed like it could be fun. I've also just taken up cross country skiing. Picked it in a similar fashion to the way I picked drawing, although I was specifically looking for something more physical to do. I went for the second time this morning. I haven't found exactly the application to sorcery yet, but I energetically feel better for having done it. I trust I'll find some other sorceric benefits from that practice as well.
So I guess whenever any of you are having trouble staying on the path and you've got nothing else, just pick something you haven't really done before that you think might be fun and do it. See how it turns out and good luck.
Kaomea wrote:It's also nice to keep in mind, while traveling on the path of the warrior, that all warriors travel their own paths. We may walk beside one another yet our paths are different and our own.
Couldn't agree more here. Except instead of advising people to keep it in mind I'd suggest they tatoo that on their foreheads.
One has to find their own path. Others can try to help but they can only do so much as they don't know what path is the right one for you. I mean they can tell you your path probably doesn't involve eating potato chips and watching TV all day and other things like that, and maybe make suggestions but that's it. You've got to use your intent to find the path as much as to walk it and stay on it.
One thing that's been helping me with this is trying more not-doings with my routines. This involves two things. First is looking hard at the reasons for my routines and finding what I ought to get rid of. The second is selecting new things to do instead. I recently started learning to draw. As I'm learning this skill, I'm seeing things that apply to sorcery. In drawing there's a concept called "negative space". This involves looking at the shape of the space around objects to get an idea of how to draw them instead of looking at the objects themselves. For example, if you were drawing a horses legs the natural tendency of looking at the legs themselves and trying to draw them where you think they should be tends to produce results that are less than satisfactory. If you look at the "negative space" between the horse's legs however, you'll often see a very simple shape that you can then draw to get the legs positioned properly in your drawing. Additionally, once I've developed a bit more proficiency I'm planning to draw some of the images from my dreams. I'm sure that bringing that intent with me into dreaming can only be helpful for my dreaming awareness.
I didn't pick drawing as a new not-doing for those reasons though. I just sort of thought about what I could do that I've never really done which would fit in well with my current circumstances and seemed like it could be fun. I've also just taken up cross country skiing. Picked it in a similar fashion to the way I picked drawing, although I was specifically looking for something more physical to do. I went for the second time this morning. I haven't found exactly the application to sorcery yet, but I energetically feel better for having done it. I trust I'll find some other sorceric benefits from that practice as well.
So I guess whenever any of you are having trouble staying on the path and you've got nothing else, just pick something you haven't really done before that you think might be fun and do it. See how it turns out and good luck.