By Charles Brooks, from Reclaiming Vitality and Presence
The reader who is interested in such experimentation may feel like trying it out deliberately …[as we have practiced it]. This is fine if you have the time and patience. Otherwise, wait for some occasion when you are obliged to stand anyway. There are bound to be plenty of them. Perhaps you are waiting in line at the bank or in the supermarket or at some other location. Instead of allowing your energies to sour into impatience or boredom, you may channel then into experiments like these. You do exactly what feels agreeable and interesting, merely making the decision to forego your customary inertia and to give yourself, as fully as is practicable, to exploration. You may explore anything that comes to you. The only condition is that you give it your respect and time. If you can explore without hopes or expectations, but with the same kind of care you might give to doodling at the telephone, something will come of it.