Awareness. Action. Integration.

The first two are interchangeable.They are ordered on inclination.

Integration always follows.

My process has traditionally manifested as per the original algorithm. I cognitively scrutinize as a means of producing awareness prior to acting.

This has served me well. Sometimes.

In other circumstances, it has inhibited action; the vital next step.

I justify hesitancy as a means of preserving integrity. If I engage something without the appropriate prerequisites, intent is implicated and compromised.

This algorithm is a physical practice, but conventionally in reverse: action, awareness, integration.

Action: the workout. Awareness: the realisation. Integration: the application.

A workout presents a stimulus. It is neither positive nor negative. One may enter completely ignorant of what is to unfold. Or well prepared. Much of the time it is the former. Especially if it involves a convoluted and novel arrangement of stimuli. How can this be prepared for?

It is engaged. If one is paying attention; to keep their mind open despite the enduring difficulties, they may be granted an awareness through this effort. And without attention, these messages fall on deaf ears; lost amidst the sweat and grunt. Intent is paramount. It is the difference between a “hard workout” and the potentiality of change.

The state that proceeds culminates with awareness. It informs “better”; illuminates weakness; areas to change; grow. The more that is given, the more that is gained. The ignorant practitioner benefits from this. Perhaps they would not have gone “all in” otherwise. The mind is opened; the Ego is stripped. This state is malleable; changeable.

Integration is the conversation. The melding of what was previously unknown to what is known currently. Usually, this aspect is overlooked. Without it training is shallow, transactional. Not deep and enriching as it has the potential to be.

The integration is part of the effort however. It is necessary that this awareness now practiced; utilised; implemented. There are questions:

What will you change?
How are you better?
What will you sacrifice?

Answering these need not come through words. But by physical demonstrations. It may be intuited. Or actioned. Regardless, it needs be evident.