I don't know: Honest and Useful, Often
Not Knowing
When we do the Byron Katie work,
a big conclusion is :
”I don’t know.”
The first question asks: Is it true? And the answer is often: I don’t know.
If we truly live in the present,
what the future is going to be: I don’t know.
Brendan remembered from a book on Leonardo diVinci
that one of his abilities was to live in the state of,
you guessed it: I don’t know.
About Moshe Feldenkrais,
it has been said that he had a huge tolerance
for ambiguity.
He didn’t need to know.
He loved not knowing, that meant he got to attempt to learn something.
With a client in WakeUp Feldenkrais
and the Anat Baniel Method,
we don't have to know the specific outcomes.
That is impossible.
We do know we are going to get some outcome,
something wonderful,
but what: don't know.
But we try lots of variations,
to create some outcome,
some change, some (maybe even radical) opening of possibilities.
If we try something and it "doesn't work,"
great, we are in the I don't know state: we try something else.
Always something to learn,
for ourselves and our clients.
A lot like a real relationship, and keeping love alive.
About life: the “such and such is too hard”
story often gets undone and dissolves,
with the Work, into a state of
excited curiosity:
I don’t know how to do this YET, and what am I going to do to learn what I don’t know yet.
What I don’t know yet,
is the
field
of potential
glories of my life to come.
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