What SHOULD You PRACTICE? | A Movement Practice
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2023
- What should we practice? Is it better to prioritize strength training, mobility, coordination, partner work, etc.? Should we always practice what we enjoy? These questions and more will be explored in this video. I hope this sheds a little more light on where you can begin.
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Hello!
I am a current student of Antonio and there are quite a few things I’ve struggled to enjoy from the start. The list includes mobility sessions like diagonal stretch or good mornings and the stillness practice. I still do not look forward to these types of sessions as eagerly as acrobatics or strength, which is something I generally enjoy a lot. However, theses are now some of the most appreciated movements because it develops skills I’ve wanted and lacked such as mental focus, accepting discomfort, and recognising the nature of the mind and body through awareness. Indispensable tools for the future practice.
Excellent! Thank you for sharing your experience with these things. It is by no means an easy thing to do, let alone consistently do. We expose ourselves to our demons on a daily basis.
1:59 Still gets me every time. ❤🍅
Edit: Very true though. At 14-ish I barely ate anything. (Not many types of veggies, fruits, grains, fish not a lot of variety.) Then I thought: "I'm just being stubborn, I have negative made up beliefs about all these foods. Let's be on my way to adulthood and start trying them all out."
Now I am basically able to like anything besides most sweets (maybe due to negative beliefs) and some very particular food.
Edit2: Just remembered Marcello Pallozzo also has this concept called shadow work, about the practices of dislikes. They reveal something about you, which was lurking in the shadows. Most intriguing.
Anything that challenges us should be tasted,integrated and perfected. They all help us grow ❤
Well, maybe not everything but some things for sure. It is a concept I see many talk about but very few actually apply daily.
@@TheTaoWay I do apply,moment to moment, anything my mind is triggered by has to be worked with, maybe it’s a 25 year daily qi gong meditation practice and application of daoist/Buddhist teachings
Thank you for those beautiful insights! I’m having since years a similar experience (but unconsciously) with the tomatoes and it inspires me to continue and take it on as a practice. 🤍🍃
Back when I was training with you I kind of disliked the spinalwaves. Mostly the amount of min I had to spend but since then I incorporate in my warm up and I enjoy it a lot :)
That was only 20 minutes of work at that time. Doing something you don't like certainly can increase how you feel the time pass. Good to hear you enjoy it now.
haha my tomato journey was actually similar. Now I use it in a lot of my cooking and love it.
For me, horse stance is a good example of something we worked on that I did not like at first, but slowly started to crave it. At first, I would actually dread it even the night before my mobility sessions. It felt like I was getting ready to go into battle. But the more I did it, the more my mind adapted to the mental challenge of it, and I actually started to enjoy it in a way. Learning how to relax mentally and physically (where possible) when your body is under stress is an amazing skill to develop. This can be carried over to other parts of the practice and our lives.
Excellent. A great example of an exercise that started as a hatred and turned into an enjoyment.
I always go for what I am bad at, enjoying it or not does not matter. This comes from a realisation that I always and only do the things that I can do in the way that I can do them best (for exemple in locomotion I always go for the same patterns, and I tend to always turn right rather than left). So, in my practice, I spend alot of time reflecting on my movement choices and then implementing the things that I unconsciously do not do back into the work.
This is great. The analyzation of our practice is a must but not at the cost of the creative process.
Great lesson & video Antonio. Personally I have been struggling with spinal work and stillness consistency. So now I have prioritized this work and begin my days with it- and it’s funny after a week or so it’s growing on me already!!
Continue to let it grow! It won't be enjoyable in the beginning or even every day.
I wasn’t expecting to see myself with the stick like this.😂😂 I laughed so hard. I didnt event know you captured this moment :).
For me, soft work such as water quality and air quality, has always been difficult to consistently practice. However, after many hours of practice I started to like those as well. Then same thing happened with the bjj practice.
Consistent training with effort and awareness led me to see things that I dislike and fear as an oppurtinity to grow. These are the areas that my mind doesnt want to go so I go. It is kind of a game with my own mind.
Great, Mao! These moments can push us forward or destroy us. They need to be regulated and worked with in our own time and dosages. It is great to see your continuing progress here.
I dislike yoga, however I have had a few instructors that had me enjoying it.
I just need to get in a regular routine for movement, however it is difficult with 3 boys and their sports.
Ah yes this is something to think about as well. Not all instructors are created equal. Unfortunately, I know many yoga teachers that don't even have a yoga practice themselves (is that a real teacher?). Going to group classes with a teacher that practices what they preach can be very motivating.
I hope your teacher Ido and Odelia are okay. Pray for Israel.
Good point but if someone tries a little bit of something he/she dislikes for month and consistently thinking the same, I believe he/she has the reasonable certainty that he/she doesn't like that something and that's enough. Why insist? Wouldn't that mean taking up precious time that he/she could use to try something else, to know his/her self better?
Most of the people can't use training to their personal growth or do that via another way.
I disagree. Just in my tomatoe story I said that it took months before the tomatoes started to stop be disgusting. Now, I love them. A lot of practices have taken years of consistent practice before I enjoyed them. The pursuit of something you dislike is by no means a waste of time. Anything can be meaningless or meaningful, it is up to the individual.
@@TheTaoWay I wouldn't say that pursuing something you dislike is a waste of timeIf you do it with the intention of testing and getting to know you. I believe there is a limit beyond which to accept that you know yourself well enough to be able to say that it no longer makes sense to continue and move on to something else. We never finish learning about ourselves, but we also learn something by changing the 'object' of our practice, at the pace we feel is right.
In your first comment you said two main things that I disagree with 1. if someone tries a little bit of something for a month that is enough to gauge whether they liked it or not. As I said, it has taken me years of consistent practice to start to enjoy certain practices and 2. You say that it would be taking up precious time to continue with it. To me, the second point implies that you think it is wasting time, "taking up precious time". I disagree with your most recent comment as well. I don't agree there is a time limit. For an example, my teacher practiced something for nearly a decade before enjoying it.
@@TheTaoWay I am not arguing that intentionally, through practice, we cannot change. In the video, however, the justification for this seems to be the belief that 'we don't know ourselves': I disagree.
I would argue that we do not know ourselves completely and 'intention' is a form of cultivating ourselves through self-indulgence.
At the same time the moment I decide, for years, to force myself to practise something I dislike, I am implicitly admitting that I know myself (whether I like it or not) but I have decided to educate myself not to care about it. This opens up a whole series of other also negative implications to which one must pay attention. I thank you for the content you share and for this exchange because it enriches those who follow you.
I think you misunderstand the point of the video.
People tend to not approach certain practices because at one time or another they disliked it, tried it for some time and decided it wasn't for them, it is outside of social norms, ego, bad teachers, bad experiences, etc.
People very rarely consistently practice something they view as invaluable or meaningless and in doing so they narrow the possibility of these practices positively affecting them. As an example, developing a handstand is viewed as both meaningful by one crowd and completely meaningless by another. It is not in the practice of anything in particular but in how you view the practice that brings the meaning.
Based on your comments, you seem to attach a negative mentality when it comes to practicing dislikes. This is the exact opposite of what I say in the video. I may dislike the practices themselves but I love and enjoy my practice. If you are only practicing dislikes and hating every moment of your being or it is causing negative emotions or negative outcomes then this is something I am not behind. This is very different than what I am talking about in the video.
This all is not just from personal experience but also through working with hundreds of people now that can say they had no idea what they liked or disliked. It was often only after they became good at the practice that they started to like these areas. As I quoted in the video, "I challenge you to not like it once you are good at it" - Ido Portal. Their bias' were shrouded in their own weaknesses'. I wish you the best on your journey.
- Antonio